Sergey Matveychuk explained:

Hello!

I've just subscribed and I'd like to ask. Is there any troubles if I change my imap-uw with davecot? Will davecot pick up imap-uw created folders (mboxes)? I use all protocols: imap, imaps, pop and pops.

I've seen some problems with mbox was mention on this maillist. What kind of problem?

the only problem I had (and it was severe enough to push me back to UW) was that client side filtering seemed to trigger reindexing every time a message was moved. This problem made my e-mail processing very very slow. If I had moved to maildir, I think things would have been a very different story.

I will say however that I am quite confident that Timo will solve this problem and also make it trivially easy for people to convert away from mbox to maildir in an opportunistic fashion as they access each mailbox. And I am sitting here with mboxes just waiting to be a guinea pig!

It will be also interesting to see the solution for mail delivery when you have a mixture of users accepting mail through /var/spool/mail/XXX and others in home directory maildir. And yes, I know of sites where they need to do this.

---eric