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<author><personname><firstname>Bertjan</firstname><surname>Broeksema</surname></personname></author>
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<holder>Bertjan Broeksema</holder>
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This handbook describes the mbox protocol.
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<para>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.</para> 

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