271393 - Migration of Eudora (V5.1) skips personalities with a hyphen (-) imbedded in them

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Jim McCorison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Really cool auto migration... but it missed a few. The single word and
multi-word personalities were all imported fine, except those with an imbedded
hyphen '-'. For example 'Starfish - Info'. These were skipped. The skipped ones
did not prevent subsequent personalities from being migrated.

I deinstalled Thunderbird, added a couple fresh personalities with a hyphen in
them and same results. It does not matter if there are spaces surrounding the
hyphen or not.

The version of Eudora presently in use is 5.1


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create personalities in Eudora (V5.1) with an imbedded hyphen (e.g. A-B)
2. Install Tbird


Actual Results:  
The hyphen imbedded personalities were not converted to Tbird.

Expected Results:  
The hyphen imbedded personalities should have been converted to Tbird.

While this is a one time bug for the user, i.e. only at migration time, it is
important that the experience of the user converting to Thunderbird be as smooth
as possible. Non converted accounts could confuse or discourage the novice user.

Comment 1

[Jim McCorison]

Sorry, screwed up the user agent field. User agent is Thunderbird 0.9 (20041103)

Perhaps the bug report form shouldn't default to the Mozilla build version when
the user has selected Thunderbird. Hmmmm, where do you go to submit a bug for
the bug submittal process? :)

Comment 2

[Jim McCorison]

FYI, this is still an issue with Tbird 1.0. 

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.