[Dovecot] Moving from MBOX to Maildir or DBox ?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 17:47 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:

> Actually we use MBOX format for all our IMAP access but users complain 
> they cannot create subfolders in imap folders, of course they cannot
> because of MBOX format ...
> 
> I need gurus advices on changing mailbox format
> 
> Maildir of Dbox ?
> 
> What would be the safest way to go ?

Maildir has been in use for longer and for much more people than dbox,
so it's of course safer. But sdbox is simple enough that it should be
pretty safe too in v2.0 (don't use it in v1.x).