Long folder names and backing up on a Windows server

So Mail creates these really long folder names in the Home/Library/Mail folder. Something like [email protected] Not usually a problem. But I just found myself in a bit of a pickle. The trouble is, I'm trying to back up the email of the Mac users in the office onto a Windows 2003 server. There is this odd and very irritating limitation with Windows servers and Macs and the number of characters allowed in a filename and/or path name.
So this is all a big set up for the question on my mind: Is it at all possible to rename those long folder names to something more succinct? I mean I know it's possible but when you do so, when you open Mail.app back up, it creates a new folder with its standard naming convention.
I have confirmed that renaming the folder manually and backing up without opening Mail.app again works just fine.
Thanks!
Mitchell Moss
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I apologize. I was unclear in my description of my new problem. I have some users using Mail.app and others using Entourage. I've encountered the "file too large" problem with Entourage users. For the record, I'm using the backup program iBackup. In the log file it creates, it states that the Entourage database file is too large.
For example, one person has a 2.6GB Entourage database file. iBackup will start copying and get to around 2GB, maybe 2.1 or 2.2. It will then appear to quickly finish. Looking in the backup folder on the server, it shows the entirety of the Office 2004 Identities folder to be 96KB....
Is this some sort of weird limitation on the part of Windows Server 2003 and how it deals with communication from Macs, or is it just an issue with iBackup? I have copied much larger files using iBackup to back up to a locally-attached Firewire hard drive successfully, so I am leaning towards a strange Windows Server issue.
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