[PATCH] Re: New account setting "maildir-windows-compatible" - That makes OfflineIMAP to use exclamation mark (!) instead of colon for storing messages. Such files can be written to windows partitions. But you will probably loose compatibility with other programs trying to read the same Maildir.

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 09:38:35AM +0200, Vladimir Marek wrote:
> > ---
> >  docs/MANUAL.rst               |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  offlineimap.conf              |   10 ++++++++++
> >  offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py |   21 ++++++++++++++++-----
> >  3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Hmm, I guess that the mail should thread with previous one, but it does
> not :(

So, this is a full resend; no problem.

>        Also "git format-patch HEAD^" overwrote the patch revision 0001
> (instead of creating 0002), but I guess that does not matter on the
> list? I'm still very green concerning git ...

This is expected for a full resend. Numbers are usefull for topics with
more than one patch.

> Anyway the difference to previous patch is that I'm not parsing the
> boolean value myself, but rather using the function already provided.
> 
> > +        self.wincompatible = self.config.getdefaultboolean(
> > +            "Account "+self.accountname, "maildir-windows-compatible", False)
> > +
> > +        if self.wincompatible == False:
> > +            self.infosep = ':'
> > +        else:
> > +            self.infosep = '!'

Thanks.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht