251639 - [import] Import of mail settings from OE is faulty

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[John Richards]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: 

I am a long time Outlook Express (OE) user, so am writing from that 
perspective.
I had heard favorable comments about the Thunderbird email client recently, so 
I decided to try it (version 0.7.2) as well as the similar mail client that's
integrated in Mozilla 1.7.1. Told it to import my OE settings...
What a mess! Thunderbird created separate folders (Inbox, Drafts,
Templates, Sent, Thrash) for *each one* of my dozen OE mail accounts.
Why are account names even listed in the mail Folders bar? I don't get it.  
Mail folders should be independent of the account that happens to download the 
mail. To add insult to injury, Thunderbird gave each account the same default 
SMTP server, even though my OE accounts each specify a particular SMTP server. 
(Yes, I know you can edit the Thunderbird settings to specify a non-default 
SMTP server, but that should not have been necessary.) Thunderbird also 
ignored the fact that some of my OE accounts were configured to *not* download 
mail automatically, yet it proceeded to download those accounts every 10 
minutes. 
All in all, not a pleasant experience.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
See above.

Comment 1

[Doug Wright]

Not a TB auto-migration bug -> Core:MailNews:Import

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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