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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] imap4d OSX client
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:07:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7116e857d4309153ad71c7dd2796bfa8@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71E37993-989E-4E8E-82A3-735880ECDF2B@fastmail.fm>

> > Too late, but … Apples Mail.app creates folders named "Apple Mail",
> > "Sent Messages" and "Deleted Messages". Perhaps the problem is
> > caused by the spaces in these mailbox names.
>
> The shell has some issues with spaces in filenames because it needs to
> separate arguments somehow. Why does nupas have issues?
>
> I've never looked at nupas, but if it involves shell scripts; well, I
> managed to get rc-httpd to deal with spaces in file names without too
> much trouble. rc doesn't make it too hard to do. Maybe I'll have a
> look at nupas when I'm more awake.

nupas does not have issues with spaces in folder names.
it replaces ' ' with # and # with ##; classic character stuffing.

all the apple mail users at coraid have folders like Sent##Messages.

the distribution imap4d can have issues with spaces in folder names
and ken fs.  i have not confirmed with fossil.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-25 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-24 18:41 ron minnich
2010-07-24 19:10 ` erik quanstrom
2010-07-24 19:32   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-07-24 20:35     ` ron minnich
2010-07-25  4:53       ` erik quanstrom
2010-07-25 12:26         ` hiro
2010-07-25 18:04 ` Andreas Eriksen
2010-07-25 19:02   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-07-25 19:07     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-07-25 19:07   ` erik quanstrom

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