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On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Michael Leupold wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2008 21:39:38 Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Michael Leupold wrote:
> > > 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
>
> Sorry for asking such a stupid question.

There's no such thing as a stupid question.


> I should have checked that=20
> before. Thanks for the answer - so it seems it's maildir that is
> broken on windows (the spec, not kmail's implementation :)).

Yes. The Wikipedia article about the maildir format mentions at least=20
two alternative separators used on Windows additionally to '!' used by=20
us. :-/


Regards,
Ingo

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