[Dovecot] tags disappear in Thunderbird

[Daniel Luttermann]

Stan Hoeppner wrote on 21.09.2010:

> Daniel Luttermann put forth on 9/21/2010 5:02 AM:

>> I would also use maildir for all mailboxes instead of mbox for
>> inbox...

> Do you have technical justification for this recommendation, or is this
> merely "personal preference"?  If both exist on NFS storage in a Dovecot
> cluster environment I would tend to agree due to potential locking and
> caching issues.  Regarding local storage I don't see how there would be
> much, if any, of an operational difference, performance or otherwise.

> I'm not calling BS here, but asking for solid technical reasoning behind
> the recommendation.

Nothing technical - personal preference and as William wrote: reduced
compexity.

I don't see any benefit in the use of two different mailbox formats
so I would tend to use only one of the available mailbox formats at
once. Are there situations where two different formats will perform
better or work more reliable? Why not use mdbox instead of a
combination of mbox and maildir?

--
Daniel