321410 - Import should be more configurable

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Import, enhancement)

Description

[Geert Poels]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

When I migrated from Eudora to Thunderbird, the import function did a fine job.

However, I might not like to import all my mailboxes/folders and maybe to somewhere else then the Local folders\Eudora folder.

Therefore I'd like to propose two extra dialogs
1) mailbox selection
2) destination

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 282778 or Core bug 191497?

Comment 2

[Geert Poels]

To me, they seem like duplicates.
Outlook or Eudora, the import behaviour is the same : import everything by default.

The latter of the two already dates from three years ago ... .

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Confirming import enhancement.

Comment 4

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Oops, forgot to move...

Comment 5

[James Cook]

I'll vote for more configuration but also for authorization to import in the first place.

I tried Thunderbird late last year but gave it up and returned to Eudora 6 on Mac. When I first launched Penelope it went nuts importing all of my short term Thunderbird settings and email. I didn't want them imported though - I wanted my Eudora 6 settings imported.

How about asking what to import before starting the process?

FWIW, The Eudora 6 import went well when I initiated it.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

iirc Eudora import has been removed