GNU bug report logs - #7588
smtpmail: wrong file name for queued mail on Windows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vida Gábor <vidagabor <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Fixed in version 23.3

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 7588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
	Vida Gábor <vidagabor <at> gmail.com>, 7588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7588: smtpmail: wrong file name for queued mail on Windows
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:24:34 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The call to convert-standard-filename should, on MS-Windows, replace
> all characters invalid in a file name with a `!'.  I just tried that
> now, on Windows, and it did precisely that.

The OP said he was using Cygwin. Perhaps the real bug is that
convert-standard-filename does not DTRT in Cygwin builds.
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