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

[Karol Depka Pradzinski]

On 2010-01-30, Saturday, 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?
> 
Hi. Cześć:-)
Thanks for quick response.
I've found no '!' in this dir:
c:\Documents And Settings\karolrvn\AppData\Roaming\.kde\share\apps\kmail\

But then, there is no is no suffix similar to "_2,S:2,S" at all - I described 
this in my other post in this thread.
Did you use '!' also for
/home/karolrvn/.kde/share/apps/kmail/karolrvn:@hosthidden.com:110
?
However Windows version of KMail does not seem to create equivalent files in
c:\Documents And Settings\karolrvn\AppData\Roaming\.kde\share\apps\kmail\

But Linux version of KMail (which I use in VirtualBox as a temporary measure), 
modified this file today:

/home/karolrvn/.kde/share/apps/kmail/karolrvn:@hosthidden.com:110

So how come that one Windows version does not have such files at all (tested on 
a test account) and Linux version actively uses (at least modifies) them?

-- 
Karol Depka Prądziński
VerKnowSys