218588 - Import fails to preserve the formatting of messages imported from Outlook

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[Peter Thorsager]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.11  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) 

I imported a large bunch of email from my Outlook 2002 (10.4219.4219) SP2 and a 
large portion (likely those sent from another Outlook) are displayed in Netscape 
email client without proper formatting, actually looking at the message source 
in Outlook and Netscape after import, reveals there is no formatting transfered.
This is unfortunate for simple things as line breaks and paragraphs, since large 
emails are now one big line in Netscape and much less readable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send a formatted email to your self in Outlook with a lot of text nicely 
formatted into paragraphs
2. Import into Netscape/Mozilla
3. Open the same mail and notice the lack of formatting.

Actual Results:  
as described in the details.

Expected Results:  
Preserve the formatting, at least the line breaks and paragraphing. Colors and 
font information would be nice too.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

fix for this is in bug 199298