28250 - Eudora & Outlook import do not import mail headers

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[tonyr]

Eudora and Outlook imports mail messages with headers created while composing the 
message during import rather than headers from the original message.  This means 
that all mail messages imported pick up the Date (among other things) of the 
actual import.  This severly limits (if not eliminates) the usefullness of 
importing from those formats.

Comment 1

[tonyr]

I have a fix ready to go for this as soon as I track down a reviewer.

Comment 2

[tonyr]

*** Bug 28251 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[tonyr]

Just a note on the fix.  This is completely internal to the import modules - 
doesn't change or add any calls to code outside of the import modules themselves.  
So the fix won't effect any other parts of mozilla.

Comment 4

[sol]

Tony - have you found a reviewer?

Comment 5

[tonyr]

Woops.  This was reviewed and fixed on 2/18/2000.  Forgot to mark the bug fixed 
after I checked in the code!

Comment 6

[ppandit]

Using 2/23 commerical build on Windows NT 4.0, I was able to import and view 
messages that retained their original send dates. B

But, using a debug build from 2/21, I could not see the messages at all. Still 
investigating. 

Comment 7

[ppandit]

Using the debug build from 2/23, I created a new profile, added an IMAP account, 
imported mail from Eudora and then checked the Eudora folder. I got the same 
result as yesterday - no messages displayed in "In" folder and the status bar 
says 'Creating mail message'.

I started up the commerical build from 2/24, load the same profile and went to 
mail. There were no Eudora folders at all.

Going to ask Esther to reproduce this.

Comment 8

[tonyr]

Is the problem that the mail is not being import OR is it that the Mail window 
will not show the messages?  I suspect that the UI is just not doing the right 
thing.  An easy way to test this is to import, then exit mozilla, then re-run 
mozilla and look for the mail.  If it shows up the second time then it has 
something to do with displaying the messages rather than actually importing them.  
You should also be able to examine the mailbox file on disk to see if it contains 
the mail or not.

Comment 9

[ppandit]

I can see the Eudora folders exist on the disk under the server3 name. However, 
when I start up the commerical build (for the second time) and look in the mail 
folders pane, there is no indication of a Eudora server or folders.

I need to clarify something. When I created the profile and then did the import, 
I could see Eudora folders but never the messages in the thread pane. But upon 
restarting mozilla, I could not see the Eudora folders either.

Comment 10

[ppandit]

Esther was able to reproduce the problem of not seeing any messages in the 
thread pane and having the 'Creating mail message' on the status bar. She used a 
new profile with an imap account and imported an imap account from Eudora. She 
was using today's mozilla build (2/25) and was able to see the folders.

We inspected further and saw that messages existed in the "In" file but that 
"In.msf" did not contain recepients and headers like other msf files have.

I am attaching the In and the In.msf from my system as an example.

Comment 11

[ppandit]

Attachment: In

Comment 12

[ppandit]

Attachment: In.msf

Comment 13

[leger]

We need an ETA for a fix on this please.  ASAP, please put this info in the 
Status Whiteboard field.

Comment 14

[tonyr]

I've reproduced this behaviour with Outlook Express as well which means it has 
nothing to do with importing mail headers properly.  The problem lies in whatever 
code parses the mailbox after it has been imported.  We can track that with this 
bug but the proper thing would be to close this one and create a new bug that 
better reflects the problem.  I'll try and get more info on how or who can help 
with this but probably won't have any useful info until 3/2/00.

Comment 15

[David :Bienvenu]

with IMAP, we don't parse any mailbox - I'm confused what this has to do with 
the upgrade/import code.

Comment 16

[tonyr]

This isn't related to IMAP at all.  The import code always creates a new mail 
server of type "none" and imports the mailboxes into that server.  Whatever 
profiles or servers created beforehand are not affected.  The problem is when 
those local mailboxes get parsed. 

Comment 17

[tonyr]

The mail all appears to be imported correctly.  The UI refreshes for me if I quit 
and start mozilla.  If that fails, delete the corresponding .msf file and the UI 
will then refresh.  This worked fine for me with the attached files.  Since this 
problem is not related to importing mail headers properly, I filed a new bug that 
properly describes this problem.  Bug #29814.

Comment 18

[ppandit]

VERIFIED.

I was able to import messages from Eudora with no problems using a debug build
from 3/9