287559 - Eudora-Import (MBX-Files) causes attachments to be displayed as inlinetext

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Fred.Korte]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Opera 7.54  [de]
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0 DE (GER)

Importing mails from (previously to MBX-files renamed) Opera (6.06), causes the 
import to handle the attachments as inline-text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take an Opera 6.06 MBS-file containing the mail you want to import and rename 
it to MBX.
2. The mail have to contain attachments.
3. Import it into TB using the Eudora-import.
4. All attachments are gone and will now be displayed as inline-text of the 
email.

Actual Results:  
I tried a wordaround which, at least, preserves the most attachments.
What to do?
Install Netscape 4.7(9) and import the Opera-files choosing here 'Eudora-Import' 
as well. Don't forgett to rename the MBS-files to MBX-files. 
(This is not the perfect way as Netscape sometimes tends to enter an endless 
loop and you have to kill it using the taskmanager. But it is not so bad as it 
sound first, because the conversion is done mail by mail, so will probably get 
most of your mail already converted.)
After doing so, you start thunderbird and choose the 'Existing Netscape 
Installation' option from the import. This preserves all the attachments 
imported by Netscape.

Expected Results:  
The import has to preserve the attachments  as good as the old Netscape 4.7(9) 
does.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you mean bug 228149 ?

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no response from the reporter