326294 - Mail Import process changes local folder path to default local folder path

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[brad.armstrong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird/1.5

If I am using Netscape 7.1 and I have my local folders redirected to a location other than the default location in the profile, when I import this profile into Thunderbird 1.5 my local folders location gets reset to the default and the mail store gets copied to this location.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create profile in netscape 7.1 and redirect local folders path(specifically a network location that is available)
2.launch Thunderbird 1.5 and import netscape settings
3.check new location of local folders

Actual Results:  
local folders location had been reset to default.

Expected Results:  
location of local folders should have retained user settings from previous profile

This has a large impact on deployments in a managed environment.  

In the past we have been able to redirect the local folders store by adding configuration changes to the bottom of c:\program files\mozilla thunderbird\defaults\pref\mailnews.js.  This would give us a hands free deployment that would redirect local mail to the network.  We aren't able to leave local mail in the user profile since this puts a major strain on the roaming profile process due to the size of local mail folders.  

These are the changes that we have made in the past.  The redirection still works for a new profile, but not for an imported one.

pref("mail.root.imap", "c:\\temp");
pref("mail.root.none", "H:\\Settings.MDS\\Mail\\Mozilla");
pref("mail.server.default.spamLevel",0); 
pref("mail.migration.copyMailFiles", false);
pref("mailnews.start_page.enabled", false);

Incidentally, it would be nice if the pref("mail.migration.copyMailFiles", false); preference worked when importing netscape 7.x profiles into thunderbird.  It's not necessary to copy and thus duplicate large mail stores.


These are the settings given by about:config.  

*********Imported profile from Netscape 7.1**********

mail.root.imap				c:\temp
mail.root.none				H:\mail\mozilla


mail.server.server1.directory		D:\Documents and Settings\install\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\ju093xw7.default\ImapMail\sdfsdf
mail.server.server1.directory-rel	[ProfD]ImapMail/sdfsdf

mail.server.server2.directory		D:\Documents and Settings\install\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\ju093xw7.default\Mail\Local Folders
	
mail.server.server2.directory-rel	[ProfD]Mail/Local Folders


**********new profile*********************

mail.root.imap				c:\temp
mail.root.imap-rel			[ProfD]../../../../../../../c:/temp
mail.root.none				D:\Documents and Settings\install\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\5h64onkf.default\Mail
mail.root.none-rel			[ProfD]Mail
mail.server.server1.directory		H:\Settings.MDS\Mail\Mozilla\Local Folders-4
mail.server.server1.directory-rel	[ProfD]../../../../../../../H:/Settings.MDS/Mail/Mozilla/Local Folders-4
mail.server.server2.directory		c:\temp\asdasd-1
mail.server.server2.directory-rel	[ProfD]../../../../../../../c:/temp/asdasd-1

Comment 1

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

Reporter, could you please test with the latest supported 2.0.0.x / trunk nightlies and see if the issue still occurs?

Comment 2

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

No additional useful information since last comment -> resolving incomplete.

Please comment if the issue still occurs in the latest supported 2.0.0.14 / trunk nightlies.