Re: colon in file names for maildir
Re: colon in file names for maildir
- Subject: Re: colon in file names for maildir
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:55:12 +1000
I am implementing (or finishing the implementation of) the maildir
spec in GNUMail.app, and the canonical spec says to name the mail file
"unique_pattern:info". Note the colon character in the name. Now is
this going to create problems on HFS+, the default FS on OS X? All the
apps I tried do not allow me to save a file name with a colon in it,
but can I do it programmatically? Might I run into problems later?
Anyone know how the other maildir capable mail clients deal with it?
From memory you can put a colon in a file name, and it will work for
the most part. But some older Carbon path-based functions will have
headaches. So you shouldn't, in short. There may be some way of
escaping the colon, but failing that you should use some other
delimiter.
Wade Tregaskis
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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