On April 22nd 2014, I opened a thread [“How to avoid colons in file
names?”][1]. Using a Linux system, I was mbsync’ing to a directory tree
that in turn is synced to Dropbox. However, mail files didn’t download
from Dropbox to a Windows system. The problem is that file names in
Maildir format contain colons, which Windows doesn’t like.
Finally, I found a simple solution by using [posixovl][2], the “POSIX
Overlay Filesystem”. Prior to running `mbsync` a Windows-compatible
directory is connected to another directory:
mount.posixovl -S $WINDOWS_COMPATIBLE_DIR $MOUNTPOINT
Now, when `mbsync` writes files, then colons are substituted. Example:
* `mbsync` writes:
$MOUNTPOINT/INBOX/cur/1398241472.10756_18830.linux:2,S
* posixovl actually stores as file name:
$WINDOWS_COMPATIBLE_DIR/INBOX/cur/
1398241472.10756_18830.linux%(3A)2,S
* The mapping between POSIX file names and the Windows-compatible file
names happens by means of dot files, one for each file:
$WINDOWS_COMPATIBLE_DIR/INBOX/cur/
.pxovl.1398241472.10756_18830.linux%(3A)2,S
Contents:
100600 1 222 500 0:0
[1]: http://sourceforge.net/p/isync/mailman/message/32256885/
[2]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/posixovl/
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