77615 - importing mail from Outlook Express temporarily freezes UI

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

importing mail from Outlook Express temporarily freezes UI.  a few seconds 
later, I can continue on.

not sure what's going on here, but when I import from OE the UI temporarily 
freezes.

for me, it's 100% reproducable.  I've got very few messages.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2002-02-06-03: WinMe
It appears to be working for me. I see a progress bar and it does not appear to
freeze. Seth, have you seen this recently?

Comment 2

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1, in case this can be reproduced.

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

it might depend on how much OE mail I'm importing, but I can't remember.

I think this might also be related to how the import UI freezes on other
importing.  I think the import thread is not yielding to the UI thread.

Comment 4

[Joel York]

I have the same symptoms. I'm running Windows 2000 with Outlook 2000. Using 
Mozilla 1.2beta, I selected to import my Outlook mail.
My .pst file, to give you some idea of the size, is 103 megabytes (3+ years of 
mail). Now, according to task manager, mozilla (browser and mail both) is "Not 
Responding". If I look at the mozilla.exe process, however, it occasionally 
flickers with 1% cpu and memory usage is going up a little bit (4k) at a time. 
I'm not sure if it's frozen, or if it's actually importing stuff. It definitely 
looks like the import thread is not yielding. I upped the priority of the 
process to real time and it’s still only using two percent cpu time.

Comment 5

[Philippe Fremy]

Same problem on Win2k with outlook 2000, with a folder of 400 MBytes (2 years of mail). Mozilla seem to be using the disk a lot, the progress bar is blocked. 

What is stupid is that I only want to import one folder from all my folders. The one I want to import is really small in comparison. If only I could select it directly! (filing that in another bug).

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Nikolay, i haven't tried this in a while - is bug accurate? are there dupes?

Comment 7

[Ilari Halminen]

Well, could you avoid that by transfering all mail from Outlook to a different (separated) file-database? And take take care, that this is only one in use. Then it try to import all, but there is only one folder to import.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Outlook Express import code was removed a few years ago