190062 - Mozilla should offer import from any selected location, not only from current installation of foreign program

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 153419

(MailNews Core :: Import, enhancement)

Description

[Peto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sk-SK; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021204 Debian/1.2.1-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sk-SK; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021204 Debian/1.2.1-1

When I want to import adresses/messages from other application or even from
Mozilla, Mozilla is able to import only from installed functional programs. But
often I install Mozilla after whole reinstallation of system, or even after
migration from Windows to Linux. In such cases, old Outlook or Windows Mozilla
user data are backuped somewhere, but I can't import them to Mozilla. If Mozilla
had some "browse to.." function, so I could show Mozilla where the user data is
and I could import messages, adresses and so.. It is difficult for example to
migrate to Linux now, or migrate to Mozilla from Outlook after Windows
reinstallation..

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Peto]

Since now, in most cases the import function in Mozilla was useless for me.

Comment 2

[Ray Booysen]

Peto, please mark this bug as an enhancement so that it is properly filed.

Comment 3

[Peto]

Although I feel it being bug as it blocks me from using the import option and
sometimes from deploying Mozilla at all, I can do it if it could speed up
solving this problem.