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Robin Bankhead updated MAILBOX-199: ----------------------------------- Description: Propose that Maildir be supported under the Windows platform. To my knowledge, the only technical bar to this is that maildir uses the colon (":") character, which is an illegal character on the NTFS (and I believe also FAT*) filesystem. The Maildir standard document[1] that this project refers to, specifies a colon (although quite obliquely). The "standard" clearly was never aimed at use on Windows, but its benefits as a format strike me as sufficiently great that a small deviation is justifiable in order to include it with James and thus increase platform-portability. The below patch alters message-naming so that, instead of a literal colon, the local system's path separator character (java.io.File.pathSeparator) is used in each case, giving a colon on *NIX and a semicolon (";") on Windows. (Critique of this particular methodology is welcome.) It also includes a quick fix for an issue encountered with file locking on Windows, which calls System.gc() on that platform. There may be other issues like this; I'm searching for them currently. [1] http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html Discussion about this issue: http://www.mail-archive.com/server-user@james.apache.org/msg14542.html was: Propose that Maildir be supported under the Windows platform. To my knowledge, the only technical bar to this is that maildir uses the colon (":") character, which is an illegal character on the NTFS (and I believe also FAT*) filesystem. The Maildir standard document[1] that this project refers to, specifies a colon (although quite obliquely). The "standard" clearly was never aimed at use on Windows, but its benefits as a format strike me as sufficiently great that a small deviation is justifiable in order to include it with James and thus increase platform-portability. The below patch alters message-naming so that, instead of a literal colon, the local system's path separator character (java.io.File.pathSeparator) is used in each case, giving a colon on *NIX and a semicolon (";") on Windows. (Critique of this particular methodology is welcome.) It also includes a quick fix for an issue encountered with file locking on Windows, which calls System.gc() on that platform. There may be other issues like this; I'm searching for them currently. [1] http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html > Maildir support for Windows > --------------------------- > > Key: MAILBOX-199 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAILBOX-199 > Project: James Mailbox > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: maildir > Environment: Windows 7 Professional > Reporter: Robin Bankhead > Attachments: james-server-winmaildir-v4.patch > > > Propose that Maildir be supported under the Windows platform. To my > knowledge, the only technical bar to this is that maildir uses the colon > (":") character, which is an illegal character on the NTFS (and I believe > also FAT*) filesystem. > The Maildir standard document[1] that this project refers to, specifies a > colon (although quite obliquely). The "standard" clearly was never aimed at > use on Windows, but its benefits as a format strike me as sufficiently great > that a small deviation is justifiable in order to include it with James and > thus increase platform-portability. > The below patch alters message-naming so that, instead of a literal colon, > the local system's path separator character (java.io.File.pathSeparator) is > used in each case, giving a colon on *NIX and a semicolon (";") on Windows. > (Critique of this particular methodology is welcome.) > It also includes a quick fix for an issue encountered with file locking on > Windows, which calls System.gc() on that platform. There may be other issues > like this; I'm searching for them currently. > [1] http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html > Discussion about this issue: > http://www.mail-archive.com/server-user@james.apache.org/msg14542.html -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org