[ale] mixing mailbox and maildir with dovecot

[William Bagwell]

On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I'm using dovecot as an IMAP server and my email program is
> Thunderbird.  I have a ~/mail folder full of mailbox files.  I would
> like to try and create maildir mailboxes under ~/mail but am not sure
> about how to do that.  Can I have both? Or do I need to convert all my
> mailbox files into maildir?

No idea if Tbird or IMAP make a difference, but with KMail and POP you can 
mix them with no problem.

Started with mbox being the default six years ago, and at some point 
maildir became the default for all new folders. Then made the discovery 
that maildir is slow as molasses once you get over a hundred thousand 
emails. (Moving back ups on the LAN, not the operation of KMail) Have now 
switched the largest folders back to mbox for this reason.
-- 
William