ONLamp.com -- Processing Mailbox Files with mailbox.py

ONLamp.com -- Processing Mailbox Files with mailbox.py: "The mailbox module was greatly enhanced in Python 2.5. For a long time the mailbox module only supported reading mailboxes, not modifying them. Gregory K. Johnson, as his project for Google's 2005 Summer of Code, wrote code for adding and deleting messages; these new features went into Python 2.5, released in September 2006."

--> Wieso müssen Mails in einem eigenen "Dateisystem" liegen? Ich würde meine gerne auch einfach in den jeweiligen (Projekt-)Ordnern ablegen...