Re: [Exim] Washington mbx again

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Author: John Allen
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Washington mbx again
> I think mbx is a proprietary file format, but doesn't differ much in
> terms of size to berkley format - I may be wrong.


I don't think mbx is a proprietary format - it's the preferred format of
UW-IMAP, and if you look inside the file it's like a normal mbox format (ie
concatenated messages) with a section added at the top of the file with
indexing information, which accounts for its better performance.

John Allen
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