e-mails \"box\"

English translation: inbox

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Portuguese term or phrase:e-mails \"box\"
English translation:inbox
Entered by: Douglas Bissell

08:12 Aug 14, 2016
Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - IT (Information Technology)
Portuguese term or phrase: e-mails \"box\"
Can anyone clue me into how Brazilian Portuguese is using the English word "box" in the following context:

O responsável envia um email, com cópia para o gerente da área e para os e-mails “box” das mesas.

Is this the inbox?
Benjamin Blocksom
Brazil
Local time: 01:43
inbox
Explanation:
just as you thought
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Douglas Bissell
Portugal
Local time: 05:43
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Thanks!
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4 +2inbox
Douglas Bissell


  

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inbox


Explanation:
just as you thought

Douglas Bissell
Portugal
Local time: 05:43
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mario Freitas: It's totally wrong in Portuguese, so how can we translate it?
5 hrs
  -> at least it isn't 'boqueses' :-)

agree  Fiona Roy
19 hrs
  -> Thanks Fiona
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