On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> the home page states right away that windows is not supported because
> of file system limitations.
Granted I missed that because I was primarily looking at the `mbsync`
man page. Could you imagine having an `mbsync` option for changing the
separator from colon to something else? Quote from the Wikipedia article
[Maildir][1]:
“The Maildir standard cannot be implemented without modification on
systems that do not accept colons in filenames. This includes Microsoft
Windows and some configurations of Novell Storage Services.
Software running on these systems can use an alternative separator (such
as ";", or "-"), and it is often trivial to patch free and open source
software to use a different separator.
As there is currently no agreement on what character this alternative
separator should be, there can be interoperability difficulties between
different Maildir-supporting programs on these systems. However, not all
Maildir-related software needs to know what the separator character is,
because not all Maildir-related software needs to be able to read or
modify the flags of a message ("read", "replied to" etc.); software that
merely delivers to a Maildir, or archives old messages from it based
only on date, should work no matter what separator is in use. If only
the MUA needs to read or modify message flags, and only one is used,
then non-standard alternative separators may be used without
interoperability problems.”
> btw, once upon a time, i installed a linux distro on a FAT file system
> - it built some meta layer on top of FAT to support unixy features.
> the same would certainly work with NTFS.
Well, I am syncing via Dropbox from a stock Amazon EC2 Linux AMI disk
image (ext4) to Windows (NTFS). Dropbox won’t sync files with colons to
Windows. The workaround would be to loop-mount a disk image, and to sync
to that. However, there likely would be issues when mounting and
browsing the image under Windows, and I would need to adjust size from
time to time. My goal is to keep complexity low.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
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