279564 - No way to import Lists (Groups) from Outlook Express address book

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 222774

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Emilio Trampuz]

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

I have lots of Groups (aka. Distribution Lists) set up in Outlook Express. There
is no way of importing them into Thunderbird.  Plain old Mozilla couldn't do it
either.  I don't have time to re-build all my Lists manually. There are hundreds
of  addresses involved. As long as this remains impossible, I cannot switch to
Thunderbird.  Sorry guys!  I keep trying. I tried switching to Mozilla in July
2004, and now (Jan. 2005)I tried again, with Thunderbird. But you are not making
it easy for people to switch. 
Also, even if I re-built all my lists manually, there is no way to tell which
address is in which list.  When I open the Properties for a record, there is no
mention of Lists in it, even if the record has been placed on a list. Outlook
Express has had this feature for years! If I open a record in Outlook Express, I
can see all the Lists that the record appears on. How come you can't replicate
this feature? 

If you want people to switch, you should provide at least a comparable product,
not one that lacks features I have been using for years!

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
1. After imprting the complete Address Book from Outlook Express, all my Lists
are now empty!
2. When I place someone on a list, there is absolutely no indication in that
person's record that he/she is on a list (or which one).

Expected Results:  
1. It should have imported all my Lists from the Windows Address Book.
2. Every record should show all the lists that a person has been place on.

Comment 1

[Oliver Klee]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 222774 ***