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). 
You may be bitten by this problem also when using maildir format on an 
vfat formatted drive on linux.
So in fact every linux mail client with maildir format support has 
problems to store mails in maildir format on a vfat device  aka usb stick.
Kmail 3.x on cygwin had an option to choose an 'usb-stick' friendly 
maildir format variant using '!' as delimiter.

Regards
Ralf