107995 - import dialog should have profile checkboxes

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Profile Migration, defect)

Description

[william.allen.simpson]

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

after installation and launch, a dialog comes up asking whether
importing is desired.  by default, every netscape and microsoft 
profile found is imported.

instead, the profiles found should be listed, and EXPLICITLY 
marked by the user before importation.

For example, I have NS 4.78 and Eudora.  I never use Outlook or 
Explorer, although they show up on my system over and over, 
like a virus, each time I install something else that is useful.

I don't want microsoft bookmarks and mail files and other junk 
imported into my netscape.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install
2.launch
3.import

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

I'm confused by this bug report. 

After installing Mozilla it should show you a list of profiles that exist in
your 4.x application. Select a profile and it states that it will "migrate" the
profile which copies all the information from the 4.x profile into a new
directory structure with the same information (bookmarks, mail settings etc...).

You could start Mail and it should behave similar to your 4.x profile.

In the browser or mail you can select Tasks|Tools|Import Utility which shows the
options to import an Address Book, Mail or Settings. Choose one of these options
and then it shows you a list of applications (i.e. Outlook, Outlook Express and
Eudora). This list of applications will always appear even if these applications
are not installed on the system. After choosing the application (i.e. Eudora) it
should only install Eudora specific information.

I'm not sure what you mean by "I don't want microsoft bookmarks and mail files
and other junk imported into my netscape.".

Comment 2

[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 3

[Greg K.]

Please ignore that last comment, it was mistakenly added to this bug.

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

William, can you be more specific and, for our benefit, describe precisely what the import 
dialog shows you? Ninoschka suggests that the Mozilla Profile Migration function should 
do precisely what you describe. (I, personally, have no recent experience migrating 
profiles.)

Comment 5

[Anders Åge Larsen]

Since this bug was reported, a newer version of Mozilla (1.0 RC1) has been
released. Reporter, please can you check to see whether this bug is still 
present in a recent build (Moz1-RC1 or a new nightly build). If
this bug does not occur please can you resolve the bugreport?

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

There was no response in more than a month -> WFM

pi

Comment 7

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Worksforme.