266683 - The Confirm Migration dialog comes up EVERY TIME I start Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Robert Abbott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927

During bug search, I found bug 81153, but this is NOT a duplicate of that one.
I also searched for "Confirm Migration" both in Comment and Whiteboard, with all
status selected and MailNews/AccountManager as well as MailNews only.
I found bug 69300 (which should be reopend) which I also hit on the lastest
nightly build, which is why I reverted back to 1.8a4.

Even though I've "migrated" (which it didn't do - I have to retype everything
every time) about 8 times, it keeps asking me to migrate again and again.  

The dialog looks like this

Confirm Migration
You are about to create a Mozilla profile based on your netscape 4 profile.

This will copy and convert some of your Netscape 4 files to work with Mozilla. 
You Netscape 4 profile data will not be modified.
(OK)

Then I see this

Account Wizard
New Account Setup
In order to recieve message, ...
(*) Email account
(Next)
Your Name:
Email Address:
(Next)
(*) IMAP
Incoming Server: 

I also have to reset proxies every time.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla 1.8a4 after deleting Mozilla 1.7 (also reproduced this bug there)
2. Try to run "C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe"  -mail
3. Every time you run, it brings up account manager, even if you keep mozilla in
memory

Actual Results:  
Every time I exit and restart Mozilla, I have to migrate my account again.

Expected Results:  
1) I should have actually migrated my netscape profile
2) Failing that (which it did, since I had to enter everything) it should accept
what I've entered and remember it the next time I run mozilla.

I don't suppose I have to tell you how annoying this is.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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