Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

[Fred]

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 22:28, Dan Jenkins uttered thusly:
> Fred wrote:
> >Any suggestions? Am I missing something glaringly obvious? Or is there a
> > real issue with Thunderbird (and Seamonkey and Mozilla and
> > SquirrelMail)?
>
> As John Abreau said, make sure you are using Maildir folders, not mbox.
> All of those email clients work fine with IMAP for us, though we use
> Courier for IMAP, which only does Maildir.
> I do have some issues, but it is with Outlook's handling of IMAP, not
> the mail server.
> I had serious problems with subfolders when we still used mbox mailboxes
> under wu-imap.
> I looked at Dovecot, but never got the time to evaluate it fully. I
> didn't encounter any problems with subfolders, but again, we tested with
> Maildir.

Thanks to both you and John. It is definitely using the mbox format. I'll 
have to switch it to using Maildir, but wonder about converting the mbox to 
Maildir in the many existing folders across many existing accounts.

Fun city...

Ok, well, I know enough now to know what to do.

-Fred