showstopper problem with kmail filenames with colons - file names that are not allowed on windows

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi,

On Saturday 30 January 2010 15:24:46 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?

Yes, the code is still there. It can even be changed in the config, in the 
group [General] and the key "MaildirFilenameSeparator".

Of course old data from Linux needs to be renamed before copying that over to 
a Windows partition.

Regards,
Thomas
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