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To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: offlineimap@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Windows support
From: Martijn Pieters <mj@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:16:05 -0500 
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:50:53AM -0600, 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.

There is a patch for Mutt that changes the colon to a dash at:

  http://www.geocities.com/win32mutt/patches.html

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Martijn Pieters
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