291027 - Very poor migration tools; Thunderbird does not adequately import addressbooks nor old mail from OS X Mail App.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94210

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[ken gross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Quite frankly, Thunderbird is a superior product, but its importation tools
suck, ESPECIALLY with regards to the address book. The old Mozilla Netscape
browser/mail client was an early user of the vCard standard, yet Thunderbird
acts as if OS X's vCard-based address book is a foreign language! There is a
utility that is available to make the conversion, but it does not work at all
and it ends up mangling the order of the fields. I'm very, very pleased with the
way Fire Fox handles in OS X...I wish that I could adopt Thunderbird as readily.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94210 ***