On 11 Mar 2006, at 19:45, My BSD wrote:
> Thank you for your reply Nigel.
>
> I was actually not asking about Maildir names, rather, the names of
> the
> message files that exim saves or writes in the "cur" subdirectory
> of the Maildir.
>
and Nigel was indeed meaning filenames (an Imap server does not
change Maildirs names). For Maildirs the separator might (IIRW) be
server dependent. Courier uses a dot.
It is not clear to me what is wrong here. As your question was stated
by you it looked like it was Samba's fault if the colon is not
allowed. This is why I said that you could simply use a different
protocol (excluding NFS), and that was rsync.
I am no samba expert but I found this:
http://www.rtr.com/winpak/Documentation/smb_conf.htm
that reads:
valid chars (S)
The option allows you to specify additional characters
that should be considered valid by the server in file-
names. This is particularly useful for national character
sets, such as adding u-umlaut or a-ring.
perhaps, if you still want to use samba, and if the problem *is*
samba, that is the answer to your problem.
Giuliano
