Open Bug 212153 Opened 21 years ago Updated 2 years ago

When importing mail, the user can't specify which mail file(s) to import.

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Import, enhancement)

x86
Windows 2000
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: per.lanvin, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Relax, this is more a feature request than a bug report. When I import mail from Communicator 4.x, local folders -> Inbox, Sent, Drafts etc Mozilla autosearches for the Communicator install default mail folder. If I have customized (or in anyway else changed from the default location) the local folders to f:\foo\MyMails Mozilla will not find them. So, I would like to browse the directory tree to specify which file(s) to import. Regards /PL Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start the Mozilla Mail&News reader. 2. Click the menu Tools -> Import.. 3. Choose Mail. 4. Choose Communicator 4.x Actual Results: Mozilla autosearches for my Communicator 4.x install.. Expected Results: Asked me to specify the mail file(s) I wish to import.
Same issue with Outlook Express Mail (or Address Book) import: there should be an autosearch, then a confirmation dialog with a 'browse for different file' option.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Product: MailNews → Core
Related to/duplicate of bug 190469 -> Suite bug 124486?
This bug and bug 124486 could be combined (if possible). There's also related Bug 193281 (focused on eml files) . If you are a thunderbird user ImportExportTools extension comes in handy - http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html
Assignee: cavin → nobody
QA Contact: nbaca → import
Product: Core → MailNews Core
Severity: normal → S3
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