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

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

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?

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