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Bertjan Broeksema

The TDE Team

Revision R14.0.13 (Reviewed: October 20, 2022)

This handbook describes the mbox protocol.


The mbox file format is an simple but rather inefficient way to store email messages. All messages are appended after each other in the same file separated by a special separator line. This gets especially expensive when you have many emails in the same file.

 


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