149204 - Can't import address book.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 35509

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Glenn Meyer]

What I do: 

Export my address book from Netscape 4.7.9 as pab.ldif.
Import pab.ldif into either Netscape 6.2.3 or Mozilla 1.0 Candidate 3.

The result: 

The import is garbled. Individual address with their aliases are picked
up correctly, but groups are not picked up correctly. Note that most 
of my e-mail groups are hierarchical: They contain groups within groups.
I have voided going beyond 4.79 because my hierarchy of address groups,
built up over years, will not transfer.

Comment 1

[Michael Gabriel]

any change with moz 1.1b or later ?

Comment 2

[Michael Gabriel]

dead old, no reply -> WFM

Comment 3

[Glenn Meyer]

There's no reply because there's no fix! The address book won't import 
because someone decided that hierarchical mailing lists aren't imported. 
These mailing lists were well-supported by Nescaped 4.x, which can export
them and import them easily. Since Mozilla doesn't import hierarchical 
mailing lists, it can't handle ldif files created from mail programs that 
recognize lists within lists. 

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35509 ***

Comment 5

[Vedran Miletic]

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