276464 - Adress book Thunderbird 1.0 : bad When importing MS Outlook 2003 addressbook, old (obsolete) addresses are imported

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[Emmanuel]

For many contacts, a spécific e-mail address has been replaced by an old and
depreciated e-mail adress.

For exemple, I had in my Outlook 2003 the contact "xx" with only one e-mail
adress : "[e-mail]"
After the standard import, Thunderbird presents me a contact with the good name
"xx". But, this contact has only one e-mail and it is not the actual e-mail
present in Office 2003 ! It is an depreciated e-mail adress ([e-mail] here).
It is very important because with this problem, the import is not reliable.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

I don't get it. Where would that old email-address ([e-mail]) be coming
from ? Was it in the Outlook address book (under a different name ?) Or was it
already in the Tunderbird address book, maybe in the 'Collected Addresses' list ?

Comment 2

[Emmanuel]

I agree that it is a very strange bug.
I know that this email-adress was not already in Thunderbird because it was a
new install without mails or email-adress.

The fact is that the bad email-adress presented by Thunderbird is an old adress
for this contact (and just for this contact). This adress was erased in Outlook
2003 many months before.

In addition, Thunderbird presents me two directory in Adress book that were
erased too many months before in Outlook 2003 !

<X-File music>

In addition, an other fact :
I have erased my Thunderbird adress book. Then, I have added a "real adress"
(street, city...) of a contact that presents a problem. Then, I have runned
again the import of Thunderbird. The previous problem (ghost directory, bad
email-adress...) were always here but the new "real" adress added too.
Therefore, we can think that the Outlook 2003 datafile target is good...

I suppose that Outlook 2003 keeps many "historic" informations in this adress
book data representation and that the import on Thunderbird is confused by this
"historic" informations.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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