Open Bug 249341 Opened 20 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Support Profile Migration from mail.app

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Migration
Platform:
All
macOS
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: mscott, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 3 open bugs)

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted) 

It would be really cool if a Mac volunteer tried to write a profile migrator for
mail.app similar to the one I just wrote for migration from the mozilla suite
(See Bug #248047). The framework and the UI is all in place, one would just need
to write the OS X specific code to find the mail.app settings and turn them into
mozilla profile settings.

cc'ing some possible Mac volunteers.
nominally putting in the 0.9 bucket. But I won't be getting to this before 1.0.
It will get pushed off unless someone else gives it the old college try.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
OS: Windows XP → MacOS X
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird0.9
Hardware: PC → Macintosh
would be great if someone volunteered to do this.
Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: Thunderbird0.9 → Thunderbird1.1
I'm willing to take a stab at this.
Haven't used the existing migration tools... is mail mirgation part of this, or
only the account/server info?  I'm tinkering with importing the mail, preserving
folder names/nesting.  Didn't see a specific bug for mail import.
(In reply to comment #4)
> Haven't used the existing migration tools... is mail mirgation part of this, or
> only the account/server info?  I'm tinkering with importing the mail, preserving
> folder names/nesting.  Didn't see a specific bug for mail import.

Sorry, ignore.  Read the linked Bug #248047, found it in source.
*** Bug 272533 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Component: Preferences → Migration
this will get driven by the community and not by me if it happens...
Target Milestone: Thunderbird1.1 → Thunderbird1.5
The address of Mail.app is managed with AdressBook.
Depends on: 218145
Changing dependency from the old thunderbird specific bug 218145, to the core
bug (moved from suite) bug 203927.
Depends on: 203927
No longer depends on: 218145
Assignee: mscott → hwaara
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
This bug has been on the backburner for a while mostly due to bug 303319 (which, if fixed, would make it much easier to implement the emlx-parsing).
Depends on: 303319
Sorry, got lost long ago when I tried walking around bug 303319
Assignee: hwaara → mscott
QA Contact: migration
Depends on: 420472
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Depends on: 433265, 433267
No longer depends on: 303319
Nominating wanted-thunderbird3 to keep it on the radar.
Flags: wanted-thunderbird3?
Certainly wanted for 3.
Flags: wanted-thunderbird3? → wanted-thunderbird3+
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Target Milestone: Thunderbird1.5 → ---
wanted‑thunderbird3- since it seems unlikely to make it for tb3 (e.g. a few unresolved blockers for this)

wanted- doesn't indicate we wouldn't accept patches.
Depends on: 303319
Flags: wanted-thunderbird3+ → wanted-thunderbird3-
Severity: normal → S3
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