PMDF Programmer's Reference Manual


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Chapter 1
The PMDF API

The PMDF Application Program Interface (API) is composed of the routines described in this chapter. The API can be used to submit to or remove messages from PMDF's message queues. The act of submitting a message to a message queue is called enqueuing while removing a message from a queue is called dequeuing. User interfaces1 enqueue messages in order to send mail; while programs that interface with other networks and mail systems dequeue messages to remove them from the queues. Some intermediate processing programs, such as document converters, can both dequeue and enqueue messages.

Note

The callable SEND interface can be used simultaneously with the PMDF API routines.

Note

1 User interfaces that send mail are generally referred to as User Agents (UAs).


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