107987 - import progress bar frozen during 150,000 messages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Profile Migration, defect)

Description

[william.allen.simpson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 (Macintosh; U; PPC)
BuildID:    2001103108

progress bar (barber pole) froze for about 2 hours, while clock on 
menu bar continued to work properly, demonstrating that the system 
was continuing to operate.


Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install mozilla
2. at the import prompt, hit return
3.

Expected Results:  the number of messages that have been processed should be 
displayed; 
in the same fashion as the count of downloaded messages, or the 
percentage of an image, for consistency.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Reporter, what type of messages are being imported? POP messages from your old 4.x 
profile?

Comment 2

[william.allen.simpson]

Yes, I added up the folder counts.

That's only since 1999.  The rest is backed up.

Wallstreet, 300 MHz, 8GB HD

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

reassigning to default owner.

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

To clarify, the Reporter apparently has 150,000 saved POP messages he was attempting to 
import.

Received via e-mail:

[e-mail] wrote:

> 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107987
> 
> ------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2001-11-01 21:05 -------
> Reporter, what type of messages are being imported? POP messages from your old 4.x
> profile?


yes, whatever the default import found.

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

And, furthermore...
Greg Kolanek wrote:

> 
> Please clarify: you mean that you had 150,000 POP e-mail messages in your old profile for 
Mozilla to import?
> 

Yes, I added up the folder counts.



> You can understand my surprise, I'm sure. That's an incredible quantity of e-mail.
> 

Not really, that's only since 1999.  The rest is backed up.

Of course, that's only on this account.  I have other accounts that
I handle with Eudora instead.

Hint: I've been on email since circa 1978 and am one of the "Internet 
Engineers".  I get 200-300 messages a day, of which roughly 30-50 each
day are addressed directly to me, requiring an answer -- the rest to 
engineering groups.

How do I put this clarification into the bugzilla?  Although I've been 
on the mozilla announce, crypto, and mail-news lists since the week 
they were founded, I'm only just now trying out the bugzilla (after 
discussion of these topics on the mailing list) at the suggestion of 
Spitzer.

-- William Allen Simpson

Comment 6

[Ninoschka Baca]

Are you migrating the profile from 4.x or importing the messages (i.e. from
Outlook, Outlook Express or Eudora)?

Comment 7

[william.allen.simpson]

NS 4.x.  There is no mail in "Outlook Express", but the cookies and bookmarks 
were migrated from there (by default, without any prompt to me).  But the Eudora 
mail wasn't migrated.

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

William, can you still reproduce this problem using Mozilla 0.9.6?

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

confirming to get this investigated...

Comment 10

[scottputterman]

reassigning to srilatha.

Comment 11

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
To filter this and similar messages out, please filter for "mac_cla_reorg".

Comment 12

[william.allen.simpson]

This should be listed as closed and/or wontfix.  It didn't get fixed in 3 years.

On my current platform (MacOSX), Netscape 7.2 couldn't import my 4.x mail
either.  I reported the hard crashes there, and MacOS itself sent a report to
Apple. 

I ended up hand migrating, copying the mail file tree into the mozilla folder,
and editting the preferences by guess.  Then, a simple subject search on the
whole mail folder generated the new index files.  

At least on MacOS flavors, import problems persist.  But I don't have a good way
to test anymore.  My saved email is now over 300,000 messages, and 3.5 GB
uncompressed, with another 200 MB compressed on zip disks. 

I was able to import my 212 MB eudora folder this week, and I try that every so
often.  When thunderbird is stable, maybe I'll try again.