Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/03/10:15:03
Colons are not illegal in cygwin per se, but they are
under Windows. If you try a
copy foobar foobar:info
under cmd.exe you also get an error. You may be able to
convince qmail to use a different separator.
Ciao
Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Matheson [SMTP:lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:40 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: maildir file names illegal on cygwin?
>
> 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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