[Dovecot] Backing Up To Windows File Server

Willie Gillespie wgillespie+dovecot at es2eng.com
Thu Dec 22 10:32:24 EET 2011


On 12/22/2011 01:30 AM, Willie Gillespie wrote:
> On 12/13/2011 04:21 PM, Asai wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Working with dsync and setting up backups to a Windows file server.
>> Problem seems to be that Windows is renaming the dovecot mail files
>> (maildir) to Windows friendly filenames, and losing the Dovecot name.
>> For example,
>> 1323817925.M36368P32049.triata.globalchangemultimedia.net,S=2255,W=2318:2,S
>>
>> becomes 1AETPH~X.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas about how to tell Windows to not do this? Or
>> is it not possible?
>
> Don't have any answers for you, but I know that : is an invalid
> character in Windows filenames, so that could have something to do with it.

Whoops, should have finished going through the old thread.  Seems like 
MyBSD already answered.



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