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I was able to get the script to work using filenames similar to yours by this adding 2 lines after $file = $_:

$file =~ s/\=/\=g;
$file =~ s/\,/\,/g;

This just catches the '=' and ',' in the first half, and replaces those with '\=' and '\,' respectively. I had a similar issue as yours in the past and this is how I addressed it. You may also run into '.' and '..' erroring out, but the other files should move. I would also add rename ... or die syntax as was suggested by Aaron.

Hope this helps.
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Re^2: Usig file name without backslash escape
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jun 28, 2012 at 20:50 UTC

    In a regex or double-quoteish string, a  \ (backslash) escaped = or , is no different than the unescaped character. 

    >perl -wMstrict -le
"my $file = 'a=b,c=d,e';
 $file =~ s/\=/\=/g;
 $file =~ s/\,/\,/g;
 print qq{unchanged: '$file'};
"
unchanged: 'a=b,c=d,e'

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      I got it working that way: 
      <code>
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $file;

opendir(DIR, "$newDir");
my @FILES= readdir(DIR);
closedir DIR;

foreach (@FILES)
         {
            $file = $_;
                
                if ($file ne "..") 
                    {
                        if ($file ne ".")
                                    
                            {                       
                                my $newFile = "/home/iphone/Maildir/ne
+w/$file";
                                my $curFile = "/home/iphone/Maildir/cu
+r/$file";
                                rename $newFile, $curFile or die $!;
                            }
                    }
        }

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      </code> Thanks for help Robert
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