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Robin Bankhead commented on MAILBOX-199:
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Hi Eric, we discussed this a little before but I'm still not sure of it.
As you say, in "normal" (non-Windows) conditions, everything behaves just as
before: the bits I've added such as the retries and System.gc() calls only fire
when we're on Windows.
When on windows, the config *needs to* change from the standard; it simply
won't work otherwise.
That being the case, what is there for a user meaningfully to configure, other
than specifying what alternate character is chosen? Would enough people care
about this to justify it?
> 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-v5.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
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