Josh McAllister Reporter
	Description • 23 years ago

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020131
BuildID:    2002013103

How do you import mail and news settings from other profiles?  My situation:
Computer crashed (not Mozilla's fault, but it was open).  When I rebooted and
opened my profile in Mozilla, it reported an unterminated literal in the
prefs.js file and opened the default profile.  I closed the browser and opened
the prefs.js file in notepad.  Sure enough - an unterminated preference was
followed by about 200 lines of garbage.  I placed the appropriate quotes and the
requisite semicolon, deleted the garbage and attempted to start my profile. 
Mozilla started with no problem but my 4 mail accounts are gone now!  The files
are still in the appropriate directory under the profile, but no messages are
displayed and there are no accounts available from Mozilla.
I tried to start a new profile and copy the mail files over to the new one...
same problem.  The files are not imported to the new profile.  How can I
accomplish this?  For instance, when I update to a new build, how can I transfer
my mail settings and sent and received messages with me?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Create new profile, copy the mail files over, nada
Mail files: (mail\\local folders.msf, mail\\subdir1\\inbox,
mail\\subdir1\inbox.msf, mail\\subdir2\\inbox, etc)

Expected Results:  In NS 4.x, if there were files in the mail directory of the
profile, they were automatically recognized.  I guess this is not the case with
Mozilla (I also tried this with NS 6 & 6.1 when they came out, but had similar
problems)

	Matthias Versen [:Matti]
	Comment 1 • 23 years ago

Please send me a mail if you want steps how you can import your mail manually ...


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63389 ***

	Ninoschka Baca
	Comment 2 • 23 years ago

Verified duplicate.