[Dovecot] mbox or maildir?

[Brian Read]

I am using dovecot in an SMEServer (aka e-smith), and recently backed-up 
on one system and restored on another system the imap email 
directories.  The trouble was that dovecot "guessed" the mail type 
wrongly, and I ended up with "empty" ~/Mail directories (did it create 
or populate these?), and full, but ignored ~/Maildir directories for 
every user.

Could someone point me to the chapter and verse of how (and when) 
dovecot decides which type of mail is in use, and how you can change the 
decision.  I tried editing /etc/dovecot.conf, but that didn't seem to 
make any difference.

Using dovecot 0.99-10 under a Redhat 7.3 base on kernel 2.4.20-18.7

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Cheers

Brian

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