Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/03/09:36:46
Are colons ':' illegal in cygwin file names? Every filename I try to
touch with a colon in it, backslashed or not, returns this message:
lang AT afluser ~/.cpanplus/build/Mail-Box-2.016
$ touch 110000006.l.43:2,
touch: creating `110000006.l.43:2,': No such file or directory
This is a problem for maildir filenames, which are of this form
> From the qmail man pages:
[A MUA] looks through the new directory for new messages. Say
there is a new message, new/unique. The reader may freely
display the contents of new/unique, delete new/unique, or
rename new/unique as cur/unique:info.
And:
When you move a file from new to cur, you have to change
its name from uniq to uniq:info. Make sure to preserve
the uniq string, so that separate messages can't bump
into each other.
info is morally equivalent to the Status field used by
mbox readers. It'd be useful to have MUAs agree on the meaning
of info .....
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