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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:40:22 +0800
From: Greg Matheson <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: maildir file names illegal on cygwin?
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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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