dovecot - May 2020 - auto: mdbox is automatically recognized as sdbox

Hi:   I did a simple test with Dovecot-2.3.9: 
          First step : A test
account uses mdbox format to store emails with 'mail_location =
mdbox:%h/%Ld/%Ln:ALT=%h/altstorage/%Ld/%Ln',
          Second step: I adjust
'mail_location = auto:'  and dovecot restart
          Third step: telnet
127.0.0.1 143  then log in and fetch emails.
    When I fetch email data , the log shows that the storage
format is automatically recognized as sdbox and index is Rebuild, as the result,
all emails is lost?


May 08 12:22:15 mail imap(q2 at
a.com)<30883&gt;<+nFkVxul5oF/AAAB&gt;: Debug: Mailbox INBOX:
Mailbox opened because: SELECT
May 08 12:22:15 mail imap(q2 at
a.com)<30883&gt;<+nFkVxul5oF/AAAB&gt;: Warning: sdbox
/srv/vmail/a.com/q2/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails: Rebuilding index
May 08 12:23:12 mail auth-worker(30882): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker
(pid=29526,uid=12348): Disconnected: Connection closed (fd=-1)
May 08 12:24:19 mail imap(q2 at
a.com)<30883&gt;<+nFkVxul5oF/AAAB&gt;: Info: Logged out in=50
out=881 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=0
body_bytes=0
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&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;I am confused why mdbox and sdbox cannot be
recognized automatically or there are same problem with my test ?? &nbsp;
Thanks
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