What is the right way to move messages between mailboxes?

I’m working on a spam filter. Incoming messages are sent to an “incoming” folder (via a sieve script) where they are processed by the filter and moved either to INBOX or Junk. My question is: what is the right way to effect this move? Can I just mv the file? With Dovecot automatically notice this and update any connected IMAP clients? Or is there some other procedure and/or utility (doveadm?) that I should be using for this?

Thanks, rg