Apparently, and much to my surprise, there is more than one mbox format. I just now stumbled across this, because I am going to be (re-)writing some small tools I have that do useful things with mail messages stored in "mbox format":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox In the above Wikipedia page, four different flavors of "mbox format" are described: mboxo, mboxrd, mboxcl, and mboxcl2. When Postfix hands a message to something... say a script invoked via some ~/.forward file... which one of these four formats will the message be in?