238832 - Outlook contacts that are not assigned to the standard MessageClass are not imported

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[Stefan Niemeyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040326
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040326

Outlook contacts created with a user defined form are not imported.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. I import the Outlook address book.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
All "normal" contacts in my contact folder are imported. The contacts in this
folder that I created by using a user defined form are ignored.

Expected Results:  
All contacts shoud be imported independed of the message class.

I guess the import routine looks for entries with the MessageClass "IPM.Contact".

Comment 1

[Stefan Niemeyer]

I found the code where the message class is tested in the file
mozilla\mailnews\import\outlook\src\nsOutlookMail.cpp

if (type.Equals(NS_LITERAL_CSTRING("IPM.Contact"))) {
    // This is a contact, add it to the address book!

In my opinion, the statement is wrong. The test could check if the message class
starts with "IPM.Contact".

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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