[Dovecot] Question on Mail Formats

[Giovanni Giorgi]

Hi,
 I am still tuning my dovecot, but I find myself very confortable with it.

I am going to structure my imap folder with a new namespace (somthing you
cannot do with GMail :)
and I can choose the mailbox format.

What is the difference between the two mailbox format "mbox" and
"maildir"?
I know mbox is older, but there is a good reason to use maildir instead?

I can get for instance some performance improvement?
Better archiving?

Thank you!

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