304825 - import from opera via eudora's mbx files is not exact and fails

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[Stephan Inderbitzin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Since several years I use Opera as my offline reader. I have 10 accounts with
more than 40'000 emails.
I want to migrate to Thunderbird and therefore exported - as a test - all emails
with the small program "mbs2mbx" (http://www.kmkorn.de/sw/opera/mbs2mbx.htm)
into mbx files (Eudora).
When I import those mbx files directly in Thunderbird, only 20'000 show up after
the import is finished. 20'000 are just gone.
When I index the mbx files first in Eudora and then import these files into
Thunderbird, i get 28'000 emails transferred. (In Eudora itself all the 40'000
are present). Still 12'000 not imported emails...


Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Tell me more about what happened and why so many emails are not treated during
the import procedure (which takes about two hours).

Comment 1

[Matt Dudziak]

The Penelope project has fix importing from Eudora. Not sure if that will help in this situation, however.

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Moving bugs from TB: Migration to MailNews Core: Import, as the code for Outlook, OE, and Eudora migration is almost entirely shared within the core import code.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Stephan if you use https://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope_Extensions on top of TB3.Bb2 do you still encounter your issue ?

Comment 4

[Jeff Beckley]

The improved importing is actually in Eudora, not in Penelope.  So you'd need to download and install a Eudora 8 beta to get at the improved code, which you can find here: <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_Releases>.

Most (but not all) of the improvements made in Eudora have made their way back in to Thunderbird.  So it's possible that if this works in Eudora 8 it will work in Thunderbird 3 as well.

Comment 5

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Stephan could answer to comment #3, please?

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to previous comment. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.