[Kde-pim] Message filenames in local maildir storage

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Michael Leupold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> working bugs this sunday I stumbled upon one stating that local
> maildir folders can't be saved on a windows machine due to a colon
> ":" in the filename. Now, while this bug seems to have been fixed by
> jstaniek making it "!" on windows I was wondering if saving the
> status after the ":" is something only kmail supports or if this is a
> shared feature and is needed for interoperability with other clients
> like Thunderbird.
>
> Maybe this could be simplified - after all migrating from
> kmail/windows to kmail/free-os should be possible :)

It's a standard feature of the maildir format which is supported by many 
mail servers and mail clients. Here are a few links with information 
about the maildir format:
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
http://www.courier-mta.org/maildir.html
http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/maildir.html


Regards,
Ingo
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