215710 - Mail import from Outlook (NOT express) uses wrong list separator for email address fields, To, Cc, Bcc

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 127049

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Ben]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Outlook (NOT express) uses the semicolon (;) as list separator between email
addresses in the To, Cc and Bcc fields, and the comma (,) as a separator between
surname and first name.

The Thunderbird import utility uses the comma (,) as list separator between
email addresses, which results in completely mangled To, Cc and Bcc fields.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ben]

There is a work-around to first import the Outlook addresses in Outlook Express
and from there in Thunderbird.

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127049 ***

Comment 3

[Ben]

Setting this bug to verified, because it is part of bug 127049.