on, each mailbox can send an initial message to the named mailbox, which then can identify the sender pid.</p>
<h2><a href="#connections" name="connections"></a>Connections</h2>
<p>It is not necessary to explicitly set up communication with a remote node. Simply sending a message to a mailbox on that node will cause the OtpNode to create a connection if one does not already exist. Once the connection is established, subsequent messages to the same node will reuse the same connection.</p>
<p>It is possible t