259983 - Address Import tool does not let the user choose where to put the imported e-mails and groups

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(MailNews Core :: Import, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Watson Steen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

When importing the Outlook Address Book (and probably also address books from
other clients) the Address Import tool does not ask where to locate the importet
addresses and address groups.

In my case it just creates a new folder in the root called "Contacts" (probably
because this is the foldername used by Outlook), just next to the two existing
folders "Personal Address Book" and "Collected Addresses".

It is not even possible for me to move the Address Groups over to another folder
(I can only move one address at the time - not a whole group).

/watson

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Import address book from Outlook using the tool "Tools -> Import..."
2. Open Thunderbird address book and see for your self :)



Expected Results:  
It should be possible (in the import wizard) to choose wich folder the imported
addresses should be located in. It should also in the same wizard be possible to
create a new folder if you don't want to use an existing one.

Comment 1

[Doug Wright]

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

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Thomas Watson Steen]

This is still an issue :)

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reporter, Can you confirm whether this problem is gone, or still exists on a current version of thunderbird?  

We are working to help old bugs move along, so your comment will be helpful.

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Reporter, Can you confirm whether this problem is gone, or still exists on a
> current version of thunderbird?  

Hello Watson, the recent thunderbird builds can be found at : http://stage.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/downloads/

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Removing myslef on all the bugs I'm cced on. Please NI me if you need something on MailNews Core bugs from me.