<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here --> ]> <article lang="&language;" id="mbox"> <title>mbox</title> <articleinfo> <authorgroup> <author><personname><firstname>Bertjan</firstname><surname>Broeksema</surname></personname> <email>broeksema@kde.org</email></author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> <date>2009-11-05</date> </articleinfo> <para>The mbox file format is an simple but rather inefficient way to store email messages. All messages are appended after each other in the same file separated by a special separator line. This gets especially expensive when you have many emails in the same file.</para> </article>