Marco A.G.Pinto [:marcoagpinto] Reporter
	Description • 14 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: 3.1.7

Hi!

I went to my PC with Windows XP and copied into a DVD the whole folder that had my e-mails of Outlook Express.

It was a 3 GB or 4 GB folder.

The e-mails were sorted by year: 1999, 2000, 2001, etc. which means there was a file for each one of them, for example: 1999.dbx

I then went to my laptop running Win7 x64 and copied the DVD into my hdd.

I tried to import the messages using Thunderbird but several dates are damaged... for example, in the 2000 folder I have emails with the year 1999 and I even have e-mails with strange years such as 1980 or 1970.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On WinXP copy folder of Outlook Express into DVD
2. On Win7 copy DVD into hdd
3. Using Thunderbird, try to import from the folder in the hdd
Actual Results:  
Several e-mails get the dates damaged including the year.

Expected Results:  
The dates should be correct. For example, in 1999 folder all e-mails should have the year 1999 and the same for the other years.

	Nikolay Shopik
	Comment 1 • 14 years ago

I think lot changes is done in Bug 207156, which completely rewrites import. you may give a try build from tryserver.

	Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]
	Comment 2 • 14 years ago

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think lot changes is done in Bug 207156, which completely rewrites import.
> you may give a try build from tryserver.

Are outlook and outlook express using the same backup format ? Let's marks the bugs dependent.

	Mike Kaganski
	Comment 3 • 14 years ago

(In reply to comment #1)
(In reply to comment #2)
I'm afraid this is not correct. Unfortunately, the import from Outlook is completely different from import from OE, and cannot be merged, even in theory. So these bugs are independent.

	Nikolay Shopik
	Comment 4 • 14 years ago

Thanks Mike for explanation.