# Available Mailbox Formats

Balsa handles several mailbox formats, including mbox. Further information can be found in the following documents:

# Benchmarking mbox versus maildir

http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/

# Mailbox Format Characteristics

https://github.com/winlibs/imap/blob/master/docs/formats.txt

# Maildir format

maildir(5) manual page (from qmail): http://qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/maildir.html

# Using Maildir format

http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

# QMail

mbox(5) manual page (from qmail): http://qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/mbox.html

# Mailbox formats

(From Mail-Administrator HOWTO): http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.5