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| <h1 class="page">Mailboxes</h1> |
| <div class="sect1"> |
| <h2 id="_overview"><a class="anchor" href="#_overview"></a>Overview</h2> |
| <div class="sectionbody"> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>To (over)use the analogy once again of a postal system, we think of a mailbox |
| as a place where a letter is placed to await pickup by its recipient. Although |
| current methods have evolved considerably, the original idea used for the development |
| of email was exactly that. The concept <a href="#_rfc196">has been around officially</a> since |
| at least 1971. The image of a mailbox is so prevalent that, although current |
| systems have evolved to do so much more than just hold messages for processing, |
| the industry continues to apply the concept.</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>The more general term is "Email Storage". It is necessary to store email for |
| many reasons:</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="ulist"> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>As a mailbox system — part of a queue to await processing</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>As a persistence mechanism — a place where you can go back and predictably |
| locate a message that you may want to refer to again in the future</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>As an archive — a place where you may want to store "deleted" emails so that |
| you can potentially retrieve them if you wish to change your mind later</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>As a temporary step in a process — perhaps you have a "todo" folder where |
| you temporarily store an email that you intend to process soon</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>There are numerous ways to store emails, just as there are numerous reasons for |
| storing them:</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="ulist"> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>A <a href="#_specifications">standardized</a> "mailbox" format</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>A relational database</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>A custom file-based mechanism</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>Etc.</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>This section briefly describes how email storage is a core concept in an |
| email system.</p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect1"> |
| <h2 id="_specifications"><a class="anchor" href="#_specifications"></a>Specifications</h2> |
| <div class="sectionbody"> |
| <div class="sect2"> |
| <h3 id="_electronic_mail_box"><a class="anchor" href="#_electronic_mail_box"></a>Electronic Mail Box</h3> |
| <div class="sect3"> |
| <h4 id="_rfc196"><a class="anchor" href="#_rfc196"></a>RFC196</h4> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>The concept of an "electronic mail box" was |
| <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc196">initially specified</a> way back in 1971. |
| It is amusing to read the retro concepts in the initial description of this |
| document:</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="literalblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>The purpose of this protocol is to provide at each site a |
| standard mechanism to receive sequential files for immediate or |
| deferred printing or other uses. The files for deferred printing |
| would probably be stored on intermediate disk files [...]. |
| It is also assumed that there would be a program at the sending |
| site [...]. This program could probably be accessed as a subcommand |
| of the Telnet program.</pre> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>This specification was obsoleted by <a href="#_rfc221">RFC221</a>.</p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect3"> |
| <h4 id="_rfc221"><a class="anchor" href="#_rfc221"></a>RFC221</h4> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc221">RFC221</a> ("A Mail Box Protocol, Version-2") was |
| published in 1971. It added the possibility of using FTP in addition to the |
| "Data Transfer Protocol" used in <a href="#_rfc196">RFC196</a>. This version was obsoleted by |
| <a href="#_rfc278">RFC278</a>.</p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect3"> |
| <h4 id="_rfc278"><a class="anchor" href="#_rfc278"></a>RFC278</h4> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc278">RFC278</a> ("Revision of the Mail Box Protocol") |
| was published in 1971. It provided a number of updates to <a href="#_rfc221">RFC221</a>.</p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect2"> |
| <h3 id="_maildir"><a class="anchor" href="#_maildir"></a>Maildir</h3> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir">Maildir</a> is a file-based storage format invented |
| by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein">Dan Bernstein</a>. |
| A major design objective was apparently to delegate file locking to the operating system.</p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect2"> |
| <h3 id="_mbox"><a class="anchor" href="#_mbox"></a>Mbox</h3> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox">mbox</a> email storage format was formally defined |
| by <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4155">RFC4155</a>. It is a formalization of a <em>de facto</em> |
| format used by UNIX-like operating systems.</p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect2"> |
| <h3 id="_mix"><a class="anchor" href="#_mix"></a>MIX</h3> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIX_(email)">MIX</a> email storage format was developed by |
| <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Crispin">Mark Crispin</a>, the original author of the |
| <a href="../protocols/imap.html" class="page">IMAP specification</a>. Its |
| <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/imap-uw@u.washington.edu/msg00540.html">design goals</a> were:</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="ulist"> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>greater robustness against corruption caused by hardware or |
| software failures. Many failures are "self-healing".</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>far fewer risky random-access I/O operations; a single false |
| pointer calculation in other formats will corrupt the mailbox.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>greater ease to repair damaged mailboxes.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>(much) greater performance.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>extensibility for new IMAP capabilities such as annotations, |
| conditional store, or more aggressing caching.</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect2"> |
| <h3 id="_rfc5322"><a class="anchor" href="#_rfc5322"></a>RFC5322</h3> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322">RFC5322</a> weighs in on how to describe a "mailbox":</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="literalblock"> |
| <div class="content"> |
| <pre>A mailbox receives mail. It is a 'conceptual entity' that does not necessarily |
| pertain to file storage. It further exemplifies that some sites may choose to |
| print mail on a printer and deliver the output to the addressee's desk, much |
| like a traditional fax transmission.</pre> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect1"> |
| <h2 id="_indexing"><a class="anchor" href="#_indexing"></a>Indexing</h2> |
| <div class="sectionbody"> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>Once a system grows over time it will likely contain many messages |
| stored in its <a href="#">Mailboxes</a>. |
| Searching for the right email becomes increasingly difficult. At some point |
| it becomes useful to use an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_indexing">indexing</a></p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="sect1"> |
| <h2 id="_related_concepts"><a class="anchor" href="#_related_concepts"></a>Related Concepts</h2> |
| <div class="sectionbody"> |
| <div class="paragraph"> |
| <p>Email Storage is related to…​</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="ulist"> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p><strong><a href="../protocols/pop.html" class="page">POP</a></strong>, as the POP protocol mandates interaction |
| with a user’s "mailbox"</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p><strong><a href="../protocols/imap.html" class="page">IMAP</a></strong>, as the IMAP protocol is all about storing |
| messages on an IMAP Server</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p><strong><a href="../glossary.html#email_client" class="page">Email clients</a></strong>, as the client will store mail locally, usually in the form |
| of a "mailbox"</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p><strong><a href="../protocols/smtp.html" class="page">SMTP</a></strong> as the protocol is related to transmitting |
| messages from one mailbox to another</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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