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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Message filenames in local maildir storage
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-15?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-11-11 20:39:38
Message-ID: 200811112139.39312 () thufir ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Michael Leupold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> working bugs this sunday I stumbled upon one stating that local
> maildir folders can't be saved on a windows machine due to a colon
> ":" in the filename. Now, while this bug seems to have been fixed by
> jstaniek making it "!" on windows I was wondering if saving the
> status after the ":" is something only kmail supports or if this is a
> shared feature and is needed for interoperability with other clients
> like Thunderbird.
>
> Maybe this could be simplified - after all migrating from
> kmail/windows to kmail/free-os should be possible :)

It's a standard feature of the maildir format which is supported by many 
mail servers and mail clients. Here are a few links with information 
about the maildir format:
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
http://www.courier-mta.org/maildir.html
http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/maildir.html


Regards,
Ingo

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