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I really don't like the fact that all my emails are held in a single
monolithic file of a bespoke proprietary format and encryption. For
one thing, if it gets corrupted, it could prove very challenging to
retrieve anything useful from it. For another, if you want to clean

AFAIK, all - Windows, anyway - do that. (The degree of proprietariness -
and encryption - varying.)
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I'd rather mails were kept as individual files, so that if one gets

So would I, but I'm unaware of any Windows client that does it that way.
I think the original reason was speed and storage - when they started
doing it, most emails were probably a few hundred bytes but would use
(say) 4k if stored as a file, which could build up, as well as perhaps
speed problems in accessing such files. And for whatever reason they've
never changed.

corrupted, only one email is lost, and in a format that is open source,

Berkeley, I think it's called.

though obviously it still needs to be encrypted. That helps guard

For private single-user use, not even that, necessarily! (If nothing
else, any such encryption means you couldn't use any sort of search
mechanism outside the email client.) I accept you might want it for
security, especially in a multi-user system.

against corruption, but you'd still need some method of searching a
back-up directory on a server from within your usual email client.
AFAIK, no email client can do this.

I don't K of one either.
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