Subject: RE: maildir file names illegal on cygwin?
From: "Demmer, Thomas" <[email-masked]>
To: "'Greg Matheson'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:07:59 +0200

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:[email-masked]]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:40 PM
> To:	[email-masked]
> 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@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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