3.1.1 Abstract Data Model

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This section describes a conceptual model of possible data organization that an implementation maintains to participate in this protocol. The described organization is provided to facilitate the explanation of how the protocol behaves. This document does not mandate that implementations adhere to this model as long as their external behavior is consistent with that described in this document.

E-mail class: A set of XML elements that specifies an e-mail message and adheres to the schema definition specified in section 2.2. E-mail class data is included in command requests sent to the server when e-mail messages need to be retrieved or synchronized. For more details about processing command requests, see section 3.1.5.

Command request: A WBXML-formatted message that adheres to the command schemas specified in [MS-ASCMD].