253003 - Enhancement request: Need to transfer address books and email from windows mozilla to linux mozilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 114834

(MailNews Core :: Import, enhancement)

Description

[Desmond Armstrong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040714
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040714

Enhancement Request.
There is no method of exporting mozilla addresses and mail from the windows
mozilla to the linux mozilla.
In the course of installing Linux there is a real need for the export function.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

If you have a dual boot machine you can try this:
http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/share_mail.html

See also bug 252099.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

How is this a browser bug?

Comment 3

[Desmond Armstrong]

The machine concerned is winXP/Mandrake10 and the win partition is NTFS.
It seems to me that in converting people from winXP(ugh) to linux there is a
need to be able to transfer some data.
Reading jpg and doc files is no problem, one simply goes to /mnt/windows etc.
But mail data?
We also need to make it easier to convince people to change and this problem may
be too much of a hurdle in many cases.

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114834 ***