MBOX is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of email messages. It was first implemented in Fifth Edition Unix. All messages in an MBOX (mailbox) file are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file. Each message starts with the four characters "From" followed by a space (the so-called "From_ line") and the sender's email address. RFC 4155. Mail storage protocolsUnlike the Internet protocols used for the exchange of email, the format used for the storage of email has never been formally defined through the standardization mechanism and has been entirely left to the developer. The mbox format uses a single blank line followed by the string 'From ' (with a space) to delimit messages; this can create ambiguities if a message contains the same sequence in the message text. Over the ye. Because more than one messages are stored in a single file, some form of is needed to avoid the corruption that can result from two or more processes modifying the mailbox simultaneously. This could happ.
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