316745 - Message filters and folders being applied to a different mailbox than it was on set on the other mailclient.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Vincent Voois]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/7.0 [en] (Windows NT 5.1; U)
Build Identifier: version 1.5 (20051025)

When converting from Netscape communicator mailclient, i noticed that subfolders from my main accounts mailbox, had been attached to a different mailbox.
Also the message filters that were set to automatically move messages to those specific folders, were adopted the same way.

My main mailbox was the second account-folder in the netscape mailclient, the mailbox everything ended up, is located in the fifth account upon my mailbox list.

I don't know why it does it, i reattempted the import several occasions but just performs the same actions.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Import mail from netscape client
2.View results after import.

No special setup steps, i just followed the wizard straight forward and let it loose.

Actual Results:  
mail seemed to be converted, just when looking closer some changes were noticable:
missing mails
mailfolders on incorrect places
mailfilters on incorrect places.


Expected Results:  
Just converted the netscape mozilla mailclient configuration and contents properly.

I don't think you would be able to reproduce this without having the complete mailbox contents and configuration.
It might have to do something with the netscape's prefs.js where all mailbox profile data is being stored. It had been (unsuccessfully) changed by spyware in the past, which back then, forced me to manually fix the entries in order to have my mailbox entries back.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of bug 281584, bug 260966 -> bug 268034?

Comment 2

[Vincent Voois]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Related to/duplicate of bug 281584, bug 260966 -> bug 268034?
> 

Yeps, sorry that i didn't noticed that one, i found bug 260966 but noticed it
was stated as resolved, but it also seems to relate to that one.
And 281584.

But those bug references above don't mention anything about mail filters
though,  it's important since mail filters belonging with the folder structures
move along with them to the other account.
I just am indicating it does not seem to be just a structure in confusing some
tables but as well as in an interpretation of the preference configuration
file.

Vince.

Comment 3

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 4

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

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