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  2. Maildir - Wikipedia

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    The Maildir e-mail format is a common way of storing email messages on a file system, rather than in a database. Each message is assigned a file with a unique name, and each mail folder is a file system directory containing these files. Maildir was designed by Daniel J. Bernstein circa 1995, with a major goal of eliminating the need for program ...

  3. Comparison of email clients - Wikipedia

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  4. Mozilla Thunderbird - Wikipedia

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    mbox – Unix mailbox format (one file holding many emails) maildir – known as maildir-lite (one file per email). As of August 2019 "there are still many bugs", so this is disabled by default. [20] Thunderbird also uses Mork and (since version 3) MozStorage (which is based on SQLite) for its internal database.

  5. Mbox - Wikipedia

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    Mbox. 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 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 ...

  6. Comparison of mail servers - Wikipedia

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    The comparison of mail servers covers mail transfer agents (MTAs), mail delivery agents, and other computer software that provide e-mail services. Unix -based mail servers are built using a number of components because a Unix-style environment is, by default, a toolbox [1] operating system. A stock Unix-like server already has internal mail ...

  7. Talk:Maildir - Wikipedia

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    To what extent is this "only" a spooling format (temporary) vs. a long-term msg storage format? mbox is definitely used for long-term msg storage. So is maildir directly analogous, or just sort of similar, in usage/function? Do mbox-based systems like Eudora and Thunderbird use mbox formats for spooling of to-be-processed msgs?

  8. Email box - Wikipedia

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    A mailbox name is the first part of an email address, also known as local-part; that is, the part before the @ symbol. Its format is formally specified by RFC 5322 and RFC 5321. It is often the username of the recipient on the mail server or in the destination domain. The local-part may be up to 64 characters long and, in theory, is case-sensitive.

  9. Message transfer agent - Wikipedia

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    A message transfer agent receives mail from either another MTA, a mail submission agent (MSA), or a mail user agent (MUA). The transmission details are specified by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). When a recipient mailbox of a message is not hosted locally, the message is relayed, that is, forwarded to another MTA.