1. The support on windows has been asked and the answer has been that
the maildir de-facto norm does not support this.
2. Where is the [1] you are referring to? Btw I think we could make it
configurable to allow the mailbox-maildir to use a windows-friendly
character. Maybe that character has already been proposed somewhere
else? The default would of course be the standard norm.
On 14/08/13 16:11, Robin Bankhead wrote:
Hi,
I've been looking at James as a replacement for our legacy Windows- based
email setup, at which point my hopes of a maildir-based message store
were dashed (because of a filesystem reserved character (colon) in the
spec).
Moving to maildir appealed to me because the legacy software uses mbox
but the local spool is now up to nearly 2GB and the risk of corruption
is starting to bother me (well, that and the next Windows update could
render that abandonware unusable). I daresay it would improve
performance somewhat as well.
I've had a look at the source, and from what I can see, the edits
required to use an alternative character (eg semicolon) in message file
naming only amount to a couple of lines, or a bit more to make it a
configurable option.
I'm ready to try building and testing a patch myself, but before I fling
myself into that I felt it sensible to ask:
1. Has this been proposed before, and if so, are there technical reasons
why it was decided against? (No sense in going over old ground)
2. Should I be looking further afield in the source than the specific
Maildir code, i.e. the contents of [1], for potential conflicts? (I
guess in theory the answer should be "no", but y'all know the codebase
better than I!)
Any advice would be very welcome.
Regards,
Robin Bankhead
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