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On Dec 9, 2015 4:45 PM, "Steven D'Aprano" <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
> Maildir is also *much* safer too. With mbox, a single error when writing
> email to the mailbox will likely corrupt *all* emails from that point on,
> so potentially every email in the mailbox. With maildir, a single error
> when writing will, at worst, corrupt one email.
>

may be with frequent backup of mbox file and storing checksum to each email
will be faster and safe too.
I wonder if they already do that.