Closed Bug 314747 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Unable to import from Mozilla and Thunderbird after installation

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Migration, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Migration
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63389

People

(Reporter: andrixnet, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Thunderbird does not have an option to import mail from Mozilla/mail or Thunderbird. 

This is the pair of the missing export functionality.

Thinderbird DOES have import from "eudora, outloor, communicator 4.x", but nothing newer. 

Migrate to another machine, or another OS installation and loose all mail/settings. 
Only using export to ldif/txt/csv of the addressbook and then importing it will save something. 

Thunderbird right after installation tries to detect Mozilla mail, communicator 4.x, and import it, but this only works when first installing Thunderbird, if you already have mail configured in these app, but not for importing from Thunderbird - older install, backup saved mail ... 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Tools-> import -> mail/settings
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Actual Results:  
thunderbird is not in the list, no way to import from thunderbird

Expected Results:  
option to import mozilla/mail, Netscape 6+/mail, thunderbird, mail and settings, not just addressbook.
Severity: major → enhancement
OS: Windows 98 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: unable to import from Mozilla/Mozilla Thunderbird → Unable to import from Mozilla and Thunderbird after installation
Version: unspecified → Trunk
For mail, it's bug 63389. Note that you can always copy the *.mbox files manually.

For address books, you need to export first in the original Thunderbird/Mozilla, then import in the new one.

Note that when you first start up in Thunderbird, your old profile from Mozilla for instance will be migrated to Thunderbird (bug 248047).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63389 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
I have my old profiles in a hidden directory (~/.mozilla). Thuderbid offers no option to show hidden files and directories, so I can't mark the files to import!

I can't also import the adress-book and the messages automatically, there is no option for automatically search for other profiles from mozilla programms.

It is a big bug, really!
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