On Nov 24, 4:43 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> Oh yes, and people using Windows can't use maildir because (1) it doesn't > allow colons in names, and (2) it doesn't have atomic renames. Neither of > these are insurmountable problems: an implementation could substitute > another character for the colon, and while that would be a technical > violation of the standard, it would still work. And the lack of atomic > renames would simply mean that implementations have to be more careful > about not having two threads writing to the one mailbox at the same time. A common work around for the former is to URL encode the names, which let's you stick all sorts of odd characters. I'm afraid I can't help with the latter, though. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
