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Maarten Bezemer said the following on 22/11/09 17:19:
[Of course, one could argue that they should make Outlook conform to standards instead, but since they never showed any interest in conforming to standards with any product, that would be naive. Even with Vista's Windows Mail they adopted something "almost but not quite entirely unlike" Maildir format. Still better than PST, true..]
Thy did this for the same reason OSX moved to a (sort of) maildir for local storage: ability to do a fulltext search within mail and easily identify the message in the result list of the search.
Ciao, luigi
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