Re: nnmaildir renaming error

[Jimmy Pritts]

FYI I went with the managed mount option -- works well initially. It
will be interesting to see what the final solution is.

--Jimmy

"Steven E. Harris" <seharris@raytheon.com> wrote in message 
news:<q673c5w4f4k.fsf@L75001820.us.ray.com>...
> jbpritts@yahoo.com (Jimmy Pritts) writes:
> 
> > Does the nnmaildir package work with xemacs under cygwin?  I am
> > running Windows XP and a recent Cygwin.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I don't think colons are allowed with Windows, maybe this is the
> > problem?
> 
> Search around for the ongoing discussion about mutt's maildir support
> on Cygwin (most of which I've seen is on gmane.os.cygwin, or the
> cygwin@cygwin.com list). They have the same problem, but with more
> people looking at it.
> 
> Cygwin has an experimental feature called "managed mounts." Read about
> the "-o" option in the man page for "mount." With managed mounts, one
> can work around the maildir invalid character problem, but it's not
> really a settled solution. The mutt maintainers are reluctant to do
> something special to support Cygwin. The argument goes that the
> maildir "specification" needs to amended to better accommodate file
> system constraints like these.