"We are proud to announce that the next version of SkyOS will ship with a new Mail client. In contrast to the already available Mozilla Thunderbird mail client, the new Mail application completely integrates with SkyOS. For instance, all mails are stored as separate files with various attributes attach to it. So you can easily and quickly find every mail using the SkyOS Viewer and its query system." 
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Yeah, the storage is very similar to what BeOS does, as well as the way attributes and indexes are used.
From the API point of view I'm not sure if the BeOS API had/has all the Mail related classes right in the API too. (which makes writing new apps with support for sending/receiving/managing mails and the user created mailboxes quite easy).
Anyway, BeOS stores and handles mails in a very efficient way (from the user point of view), it would be a shame not to "reinvent" it for other systems.
Edited 2008-06-11 16:43 UTC
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2005-11-10
For instance, all mails are stored as separate files with various attributes attach to it.
So... they reinvented maildir?