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Re: [bincimap] maildir message filename problem

Andreas Aardal Hanssen
Mon, 04 Aug 2003 03:47:37 -0700

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Lukas Beeler wrote:
>No, binc imapd is wrong in this case. I quote from the spec:
>---
>A unique name can be anything that doesn't contain a colon (or
>slash) and doesn't start with a dot.
>---
>Please fix binc imapd accordingly.

We read the spec differently. One of your applications is not following
the convention for writing messages. That application is broken.

Binc IMAP skips filenames with a messed up format. Wether an application
skips filenames without the required format or not, is not a part of the
spec.

Andy

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