[jira] [Closed] (MAILBOX-199) Maildir support for Windows

["Benoit Tellier (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAILBOX-199?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Benoit Tellier closed MAILBOX-199.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

Maildir was dropped in 3.7.0

> Maildir support for Windows
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>
>                 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
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: james-server-winmaildir-v5.patch, james-server-winmaildir-v6.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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