>From # mount: "/dev/hda4 on /media/hda4 type vfat
(rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46)" It is a primary partition, about 100GB in
size.

It seems that Ext3 (where Thunderbird is installed) supports colons in
filenames, while FAT32 does not. That's the root of the problem.

I'd hypothesis this:

1. The filename sanity check that exists in Windows Thunderbird
(automatically replacing illegal characters in the suggested filename)
doesn't correct enough bad characters under Linux. That leads the
application to suggest a filename that will never work.

2. So, the user manages to fall through a hole that the original
programmer presumably thought they had adequately protected against. The
error message clearly isn't designed to catch this particular error - it
refers to an attachment, when I'm trying to save the text of an email.

3. Then, when presented with a .txt extension, something goes badly
wrong with the error handling and Thunderbird crashes to desktop. The
crash seems to be specific to the .txt extension: .eml, .html, or no
extension, all fail without a crash.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90410
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