Mbox

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Mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of email messages. 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 named "From_ line") and the sender's email address. RFC 4155 defines that a UTC timestamp follows after another separating space character.

Working with mbox files