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in reply to Re^2: recommended storage format for email messages?
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Sounds like you just need to generate an index, then, with the starting line of each of the messages. If you kept it separate, then normal mbox-reading programs could use it, and you'd have your alternate way of skipping to messages.

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Re^4: recommended storage format for email messages?
by DStaal (Chaplain) on Jul 14, 2009 at 18:39 UTC

    I think many mail clients already do this in fact. If there is one that is likely to be used in your install, see if you can use/duplicate it's index file. (I think every client has it's own system, if they have one at all.)