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Old 02-04-2014
Yes. OS X GUI allows / in file names, but OS X unix cleverly replaces / with : which is allowed in unix. There's a sort of understanding between the GUI and the gooey unixie goodness.

You will see the folder in the GUI with the slash in its name, but the CLI will see a colon.
Unfortunately, files cannot have a colon in their names in Windows.

Your move command didn't work because you attempted to move the folder to the exact same location without renaming it.
mv /pathtofolder/with\:colon /pathtofolder/without\ colon

would have worked. That renamed folder would then show up in the OS X GUI, CLI, and Windows. (unless some "hidden" attribute was in effect)
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email::folder

Email::Folder(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					Email::Folder(3pm)

NAME

       Email::Folder - read all the messages from a folder as Email::Simple objects.

SYNOPSIS

	use Email::Folder;

	my $folder = Email::Folder->new("some_file");

	print join "
", map { $_->header("Subject") } $folder->messages;

METHODS

   new($folder, %options)
       Takes the name of a folder, and a hash of options

       If a 'reader' option is passed in then that is used as the class to read in messages with.

   messages
       Returns a list containing all of the messages in the folder.  Can only be called once as it drains the iterator.

   next_message
       acts as an iterator.  reads the next message from a folder.  returns false at the end of the folder

   bless_message($message)
       Takes a raw RFC822 message and blesses it into a class.

       By default this is an Email::Simple object but can easily be overriden in a subclass.

       For example, this simple subclass just returns the raw rfc822 messages, and exposes the speed of the parser.

	package Email::RawFolder;
	use base 'Email::Folder';
	sub bless_message { $_[1] };
	1;

   reader
       read-only accessor to the underlying Email::Reader subclass instance

PERL EMAIL PROJECT

       This module is maintained by the Perl Email Project

       <http://emailproject.perl.org/wiki/Email::Folder>

AUTHORS

       Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>

       Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

COPYING

       Copyright 2006, Simon Wistow

       Distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

       This software is under no warranty and will probably ruin your life, kill your friends, burn your house and bring about the doobie
       brothers.

SEE ALSO

       Email::LocalDelivery, Email::FolderType, Email::Simple

perl v5.10.0							    2009-07-27							Email::Folder(3pm)