Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <8D861ADC5B8FD211B4100008C71EA7DA04F70C86@kjsdemucshrexc1.eu.pm.com> From: "Demmer, Thomas" To: "'Greg Matheson'" Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: maildir file names illegal on cygwin? Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:07:59 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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@ms.chinmin.edu.tw] > Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:40 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.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@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 ..... > > -- > Greg Matheson It was said a million monkeys on a million typewriters > Chinmin College would eventually write the works of Shakespeare. > Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not so. > http://www.research.att.com/~reeds/monkeys.html > Taiwan Penpals Archive > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/