On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:53:16AM +0200, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: >For your interest, I posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED], and got the following >answer to the format question: > >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail&m=106002563510065&w=2
Very interesting - thanks for sharing the reference. That is consistent with the conclusion I had come to after thinking about the spec. This interpretation is also consistant with the Unix philosophy of using small independent tools cooperating together (and with the operating system) without arbitrary restrictions, rather than the philosophy of using specialized tools for every new task. In other words, if there were some reason to name maildir files in a different manner, and this naming scheme didn't interfere with the original considerations (i.e., avoiding filename collisions by independent processes), and you still wanted to use them with maildir-compliant tools, there would be no reason to restrict it. This seems to be in keeping with Dan Berstein's general point of view. Carl
