Re: Windows support

[Martin Domeij <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, John Goerzen wrote:

> The main problem on Windows seems to be that of colons in Maildir filenames.
> As that is specified in the Maildir spec, at present there seems to be no
> Windows readers that can use Maildirs.  OfflineIMAP could be trivially
> modified to use a non-colon character on Windows, but then all other
> Maildir-using software would also have to be so modified.

I just scanned through the sources of Courier IMAP. It seems that it
lets you configure what separator character to use at compile time, with :
being the default, obviously. It seems that this was added specifically
to support Cygwin.

> Another (better?) solution would be to extend OfflineIMAP to support mboxes.
> This involves a lot of trickiness, though, as mboxes are tough to really get
> right.  Locking issues are complex at best, and more realistically,
> nightmarish.  We will also have to add the OfflineIMAP metadata to something
> like an X-OfflineIMAP header to each message (this metadata consists of UID,
> folder, etc.).

I concur with your worries about sleep.

I don't know what other software the others that have made this request
are using or want to use, but since making the separator character
configurable would presumably help at least me, I would be glad to see it.

/Martin