[Evolution-users] Linux-/Windows-filename compatibility

[Milan Crha]

On Wed, 2025-11-26 at 11:26 +0100, ampersand_92 via evolution-users
wrote:
> Is anybody aware of a method that lets evolution - when storing an
> email - automatically substitute every colon by an underscore or a
> blank space? Or more generally speaking that avoids windows special
> characters in filenames?

	Hi,
try to run from a terminal:

   gsettings get org.gnome.evolution.shell filename-illegal-chars

then add to it the colon, in between `"` (double quotes), thus
something like:

   gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.shell filename-illegal-chars "\'\"&\`();|<>\$%{}\!:"

where I also added escaping to some characters, to make bash happy.

You can also open dconf-editor and navigate to 
/org/gnome/evolution/shell/ and edit the filename-illegal-chars value
directly in the GUI, without being bothered by the escaping.

	Bye,
	Milan