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<concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-15A686A8-942E-54F8-BFD4-402323979C5A"><title>Message Services</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>A service is an abstraction that collects settings information—usually to set up communication protocols, such as ISP settings—and specific folders for a single instance of an MTM. The behaviour can be different in different MTMs. For example, for SMTP a service typically relates to a single mail account. </p> <p>If a service can contain entries, opening the service from within a message client application should display these entries. </p> <p>Users can normally edit service settings using a dialog. It is up to the MTM to provide a dialog for entering and editing settings, and to store them in a suitable stream. In order that settings can be easily accessed both by server-side and client-side MTM components, the code to store and access settings is normally implemented in a separate library. </p> <p>If the user no longer wants to send or retrieve messages using the service, the user can delete a service entry, which deletes the settings associated with it are removed. </p> </conbody></concept>