252464 - mail import problems from outlook express

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230319

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Paul Beskeen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.7.2 (20040707) - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Import would constantly fail with errors, and leave the mail system folders in a
wierd state essentially breaking tb. I tracked this down to some of the oe
folders containing /'s in their names.

As workarounds you must use OE to rename any folders containing '/', removing
the '/', prior to a re-import.

If you have a previous failed import then you will have to delete the 
"C:\Documents and Settings\YOURUSERNAME\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default.gzd\Mail\Local Folders\Outlook Express Mail.*"
files and folders, before attempting to re-import (the now renamed) OE mailbox
folders or tbird will barf for no good reason. 


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.import mail from outlook express that contains '/' in some of the mail folder
names.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
You get some obtuse warning messages - but only flags one or two folders as
problematic even though there were many more with the illegal character in. Also
then leaves mailbox in a strange state that fails any subsequent imports with a
"Unable to create folder to import mail into" error. 

Expected Results:  
change '/' to an alternate legal tbird mailbox character or escape the character
if tbird has this capability.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

could this be the same as bug 219586?

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

found another one, so dupping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230319 ***