250047 - Import of Netscape 4.x mail into Thunderbird fails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253527

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[John Jacobs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: 

When attempting to import old email from Netscape 4.7 using the Thunderbird
Import function, clicking on the Next button after selecting Netscape 4.x to
import, nothing happens.  The Next button grays out as if something was
happening but nothing does.  The function does list Netscape 4.x as an import
option so apparently it recognizes that we have such email on the system. 
However, that's as far as it gets.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Described in details above
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Actual Results:  
Nothing.  The import box had to be x'd off but the import function did not
accomplish anything.

Expected Results:  
All the old Netscape emails should have been imported into Thunderbird mail.

This is on a pc that was upgraded about a year ago from Windows ME to XP Home. 
There are several account subfolders under Netscape Mail because we have changed
accounts and ISPs a couple of times.  The import function did not ask which of
the accounts I wanted to import.

I am labeling this one as major because without the functionality, migration to
this email client is not viable.

Comment 1

[Phil Diakun]

I can Confirm that also does occur on Windows 2000 all patches With Thunderbird 
7.2 Also I have several accounts under 4.x (4.8) and it does not ask me, system 
also does not seem to use any cpu time and just waits. I agree with out 
migration usage is not viable

Comment 2

[Maatje]

Confirmed on Windows Professional XP SP1 + latest security patches.
Importing Comunicator 4.x on Thunderbird 0.7/0.7.2 fails. It worked on 
Thunderbird 0.6. 

This is a bug, not a missing feature.

For testing purposes, Netscape Communicator 4.x is still available from the 
Netscape site. http://wp.netscape.com/download/archive.html

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251094 ***

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

THis is about Import, not migration, I think.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253527 ***