260586 - Thunderbird should be able to import/extract email messages from a PST file (Outlook format)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 153419

(Thunderbird :: Migration, enhancement)

Description

[travis]

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 Thunderbird/0.8

Thunderbird should not require Outlook to be installed, and be set as the
default email handler in order to import messages.  It should be able to extract
them directly from a PST file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Tools > Import > Mail > File/Folder(?) > PST
Actual Results:  
There is no File/Folder > PST.  I'd have to install MS Outlook AND set it as the
default mail application in order to import the messages.  The process works,
but it is quite lengthy as an Outlook installation - and the app itself -  are
nowhere near as streamlined as Thunderbird.

Expected Results:  
There should be an option to import messages from a file or folder.  From there
PST should be an option.

I've left this issue set as Normal instead of Minor because there really is no
easy workaround. See some of the google results for several hacks all of which
require either Outlook or Outlook express. (

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 262023 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

xref Seamonkey bug 124486

Comment 3

[Doug Wright]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153419 ***