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9front upas is all based on erik's nupas code.

afterwards it got modified a lot, so much that it might be a rewrite
would have been faster.

steve: not sure i get your specific question: are you asking if mdir
is better than mbox?
if yes, then i would agree that without more tooling around it,
without indexes around it, our mdir format is still not a very
accessible mail archive, but if you make your own indexes and some
tooling i think it's much easier based on mdir than on mbox where you
would mostly need to do byte-wise seek offsets as opposed to
file-granular read operations when you want to access a mail.