248949 - When Mozilla imports mails from Outlook/OutlookExpress, only empty folders are imported.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[Claus Holm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

If I open the Mozilla mail-reader, choose Tools/Import and try to import emails
from a fine-working Outlook or OutlookExpress, all I get into Mozilla is empty
folders. These folders are the folder structure in whivh mail are organized in
Outlook, but all the mails are gone... only the directory structure get imported.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have an email account in Microsoft Outlook/OutlookExpress.
2. Install Mozilla with mail support.
3. Open Mozilla mail and import emails from Outlook.

Actual Results:  
I get all the email-folders from the account in Outlook imported into Mozilla
mail, but the folders are all empty.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have imported the emails *as well as* the folders.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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