240354 - [RFE] No way to export messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 114834

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Brian Angeletti]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

It should be possible to export folders from the mail client to a separate
storage file and be able to re-import them if they become necessary.

The rationale behind this is that most people hardly look at messages after one
year, but most would like to keep a record of having gotten that mail. 
Including this feature would allow us to remove all the useless messages from
last year and still be able to retrieve them if we need to.

Part of resoultion would also entail being able to "open the file" temporarily
and be able to access it as a separate mail account.  Then we should be able to
close the file and have it return to its status as an old mail repository.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to export mail...
2. ...
3. Fail




This could also be seen as closely related somewhat to bug 171828 which concerns
the inability to import mail from a former install because by fixing this, in
theory, we can also fix 171828.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 114834?

Comment 2

[Alex Hirzel]

comment #1:
Based on bug 114834 comment #4, yep.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114834 ***