Closed Bug 242596 Opened 21 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Mozilla mail provides no way to specify which Outlook Express Identity to import

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187734

People

(Reporter: psheerin, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 Outlook Express provides a way to have multiple identies--separate profiles that allow multiple people (or the same person) to have completely separate e-mail storage locations and settings. (I have used identities to separate work and home e-mail accounts, for instance.) Mozilla mail appears to only import the first Identity created, no matter which one is selected in OE as the current one. There is a work-around: OE allows you to specify which Identity will be used for programs that don't ask. But few users are likely to notice this setting, and it would be far easier and obvious for Mozilla to ask the user which Identity should be used for the import. I'm not sure what the default value for this feature is. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create two or more separate Identities in Outlook Express, and make sure both have e-mail in them. 2. Open Mozilla mail, and import mail from Outlook Express. Actual Results: Mozilla mail gives no indication of which Identity it is importing, and offers no way to specify which one it should use. Expected Results: Mozilla should have queried Outlook Express for which Identities exist, and then offered the user a choice from among that list of what mail should be imported. I have marked the severity as Normal, for although there is a workaround, I would not classify it as easy to find.
Dupe of bug 187734 or bug 233194 ?
Product: MailNews → Core
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187734 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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