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

[Ralf Habacker]

Karol Depka Pradzinski schrieb:
> Hi.
> 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
>
> Notice the colons.
>
>   
There is related  thread on the kde-pim mailing 
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-pim&m=122643087901362&w=2

regards
Ralf