279450 - Outlook Express replied / forwarded / read status not imported

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219269

(Thunderbird :: Migration, enhancement)

Description

[Angus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M1)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041208)

When importing mail from Outlook Express, the replied / forwarded / read status
of messages is not migrated successfully; all messages appear as new and unreplied.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Thunderbird for the first time.
2. Select "Import from Outlook Express".

Actual Results:  
Mail was imported successfully, but no messages had a "replied" or "forwarded"
status set, and all were marked as "unread".

Expected Results:  
Imported messages should retain their replied/forwarded/etc status as the
appropriate "X-Mozilla-Status" header.

Comment 1

[Angus]

Addendum to above post: Some research has dug this up:

<a href="http://oedbx.aroh.de/">http://oedbx.aroh.de/</a>

There are some very comprehensive specs for the Outlook Express .DBX format
there. Particularly:

<a
href="http://oedbx.aroh.de/doc/OE_Dbx_MessageInfo.html">http://oedbx.aroh.de/doc/OE_Dbx_MessageInfo.html</a>

See the bottom of that; the "Flags" values have been decoded, it seems that the
20th bit of the Flags descriptor defines whether the message is marked as
answered or not. Plus there's lots of demo C++ code.

Hopefully this helps Thunderbird's import code! If this is fixed in the nightly
builds please post by the way...

Comment 2

[Albert Feller]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219269 ***