[Dovecot] How to substitute colon `:' for another character in Maildir message files?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Mar 12 11:11:24 EET 2006


On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 17:05 -0500, My BSD wrote:
> Need to back Maildirs to a smb share as a nightly Cron job (NFS is not
> an option).
> 
> Unfortunately, because Dovecot (1.0.beta2) adds a colon `:' to the name
> of the message file, Samba (actually "mount_smbfs") truncates the file
> names. As a result, files with truncated duplicate file names are
> overwritten.
> 
> Would prefer a build option or configuration parameter (a hack is O.K.
> if nothing else is available).

src/lib-storage/maildir/maildir-storage.h

MAILDIR_INFO_SEP
MAILDIR_INFO_SEP_S

Changing that breaks maildir standard, so I don't want to make it any
easier to change it.

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