Its a unix mailbox format. Used by various unix mailers, such as elm,
pine and mutt, etc.
If you use a browser (Mozilla, Seamonkey, and presumably Thunderbird)
to read you mail, you can often find mboxes in the
.mozilla/$profile/????.slt/Mail/$server or
.mozilla/$profile/????.slt/Mail/Local\ Folders directory. These contain the
data of the folders you have created in your mail client. The mboxes
are the files not ending in .msf.
Of course, what these browsers do on a Windows system I have no idea.
An mbox is a plain text file, and consists of emails with all their
headers concatenated together. Each email starts with the word "From"
eg
>From vsten...@mindspring.com Fri Aug 19 08:32:56 2005
Return-Path: <vsten...@mindspring.com>
X-Original-To: r...@localhost
Delivered-To: r...@localhost.bigpond.net.au
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by mpi.bigpond.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E5E38A01
for <r...@localhost>; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:28:18 +1000 (EST)
...
If you have ever wondered why lines beginning with the word From get
an extra ">" character added to it by the email syste (or why some
LaTeX documents have an upside down question mark in front of From),
this is the reason :).
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:50:39PM -0400, m.a. wrote:
>
> Mirek,
> What's an MBOX and how do you send it?
>
> marty a.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miroslav Dobsicek" <m.dobsi...@gmail.com>
> To: <everything-list@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:31 PM
> Subject: list archive
>
>
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I had a hard disk failure recently and lost my archived emails
> > approximately from May 2009 up to now (few months). Could somebody who
> > is keeping all the emails from this mailing group send me an exported
> > mbox or something similar?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> > mirek
> >
> > >
>
>
>
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