On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Reid Thompson <reid.thomp...@ateb.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 11:01 -0400, Mark Filipak wrote:
> > Here is a typical message file:
> >
> > ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/cur/1365462216.8388_1.Iris:2,S
> >
> > Can I persuade Evolution to use some other character in lieu of the
> colon? This
> > is very important to me... it's a show-stopper.
> >
> > Thanks - Mark Filipak.
>
> why is it a showstopper?
>

He is probably copying them to, or using a network share of an NTFS
filesystem. The colon is reserved for drive letter separation and possibly
alternate data streams, if those are enabled.

Some of the file copy tools I use like WinSCP convert colons to %3A when
naming the file. This works as long as you have it set to do the conversion
both to and from consistently and don't change it.
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