258850 - Import Mail from Outlook Express fails

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[Ocie Hudson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

I am running Windows XP SP2, so all the MS apps included are current.  When I
use Tools\Import\Mail\Outlook Express, Mozilla displays a message that says 7
messages were imported from the inbox and 2 messages were imported from deleted
messages.  However, subsequently I cannot find the messages that were supposedly
imported.  At first I thought that maybe they would not show because some that
were in the Outlook Express inbox were actually already present in the Mozilla
inbox or in "subfolders".  So I made sure that some unique messages were ONLY in
the Outlook Express inbox, etc., and tried again, but they were not imported. 
As suggested in the additional comments for Bug #236263, I made Outlook Express
the default e-mail application, removed that designation for Mozilla Mail,
exited both applications, then ran Mozilla Mail and performed the import again,
but nothing was actually imported -- i.e. I cannot see any message that was in
the Outlook Express inbox but not already in the Mozilla inbox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.use the Tools\Import\Mail\Outlook Express feature
2.try to find the messages that were supposedly imported
3. (see also the detailed description)

Actual Results:  
as described in Details

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should display the imported messages -- even, perhaps, if they are
duplicates of messages that Mozilla already has on record.

Well, it seems I've found another bug.  Namely, when I use about:buildconfig in
the URL bar to display the data, then highlight and copy it to the clipboard,
and attempt to paste it into this field, nothing happens.  (No way am I going to
laboriously copy all of that data by hand onto paper just so that I can enter it
into this field!)

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Do you build yourself? If yes, do you build with MinGW?

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

--> invalid
cleared by mail, the mails were imported in Local Folders and not as thought in
the default mail account.