Accesses and acts upon a particular Message Server entry. The current entry that a CMsvEntry object relates is referred to as its context.

It may be helpful to consider CMsvEntry functions in two broad groups. The first provides means to access the various types of storage associated with an entry. The second provides a means to discover and access other entries that the entry owns (its children).

Message client applications, Client-side MTMs, and User Interface MTMs all commonly use CMsvEntry objects. CMsvEntry objects though represent a lower level of access to an entry than that provided by a Client-side MTM or User Interface MTM. In particular, any MTM-specific functionality, such as address lists or subject fields, must be accessed by a message client application through an MTM inteface.

A CMsvEntry object is relatively expensive in RAM usage, as it caches its children, updating them as necessary when notified of changes. They should therefore be created sparingly.

Note that Server-side MTMs do not use this class, but a similar one, CMsvServerEntry.