209763 - Import from Outlook XP fails if an Outlook Folder contains a forward slash "/"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 140212

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[Bert Slagter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

I try to import my Outlook XP Mail into Mozilla. I have several folders with a
'/' in it, like "Study / University". The first time I tried to import, the
process failed with the error "Unable to import mailboxes, cannot create proxy
object for destination mailboxes.". This looks like #142537.

Then I emptied my Mozilla mail folders and restarted the import process. Now the
import process finished with a few warnings stating that certain folders could
not be imported. This folders were all folders containing the '/'-character. 

After having renamed these folders in Outlook (replace '/' by '&') and emptied
the Mozilla mail folder, I restarted the import process again. Now everything
went fine, import succesful.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Outlook XP Mailbox-folder containing a '/' character
2. Open Mozilla Mail
3. Import the Outlook XP Mailbox

Actual Results:  
See details.

Expected Results:  
Outlook should replace all invalid characters by a valid character. The user
should receive a notice of this after the import.

Comment 1

[WD]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140212 ***

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

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