[Kde-pim] showstopper problem with kmail filenames with colons - file names that are not allowed on windows

[Jay Woods]

On Saturday 30 January 2010 08:24:46 am Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> 2010/1/29 Karol Depka Pradzinski <karolrvn at verknowsys.com>:
> > Foreword: I tried to search for a solution for this quite hard on
> > Google and Nabble with absolutely no results. Is it possible, that
> > I am the only one with this problem? Nah...
> >
> > I cannot use my KMail (and possibly Kontact in general) data from
> > Linux under Windows because there are lots of files with colons in
> > names (which are illegal chars for DOS/Windows file names).
> > Possibly other illegal chars are there too. What can I do?
> > Is there any "escape sequence" for these characters in kde-windows
> > ? Could I use KRename mass-rename? But rename to what?
> >
> > Examples of file names:
> > /home/karolrvn/Mail/sent-mail/cur/1257274396.1241.emLSY_2,S:2,S (
> > few thousands of these)
> >
> > /home/karolrvn/.kde/share/apps/kmail/karolrvn:@hosthidden.eu:110
> 
> I remember I've replaced ':' with '!' for maildir storage while
> porting kmail to windows. That was in 2008 and KMail worked well
> (except for dbus issues).
> Isn't the code still there? Thomas? Till?
> 
The usual substitution I've seen in Windows programs is an underscore.
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