On Monday 12 December 2005 3:49 pm, Ed Howland wrote:
> I've seen references to both in the googlesphere, but nothing that
> immediately backups this claim.
>
> I have a larege mbox format file I want to convert to mbx. I've found
> things to convert it to MAILDIR. Are they the same?

heck no.

mbox is basically all your emails for a folder, in one big ass text file named 
for the email folder.

maildir is each individual email in a separate file, with all the files in a 
folder corresponding to an email folder.

maildir is better because it's faster & less prone to corruption.

scott

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