46951 - Address Book Not Accessible from Mail Composition Window

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[bbriley]

Hi,

I successfully imported the Eudora Addresses into the M-16 Address book.  That
works well!  However, those addresses imported (and visible in the address book
window) DO NOT show up in the message composition window when I click on the
address book icon.  The window opens up, listing the Netscape and Eudora address
books - but no entries/cards show up!

Comment 1

[Peter 'Rufus' Nelson]

reporter: can you please download a newer build (m16 is getting really old as
far as mozilla goes) and test this again.  If you still see it (or don't) please
make a comment.  You can get the latest builds from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/

Comment 2

[bbriley]

Rufus asked me to download the latest nightly build.  I did so a few hours 
ago.  I discovered what the problem was (and corrected it!).  The original
Mozilla M-16 put the "users 50" into my temporary unzip folder - where
I expanded Mozilla before moving it to c:\mozilla.  Thus that is where the
address book was imported, even though I had since said all mail folders 
should be in c:\mozilla.  I had set the location for default mail folders,
etc., in c:\mozilla, but I had imported the address book from Eudora before
I did that.  Thus the imported address book was in c:\unzip\users 50, while my 
mail folders were in c:\mozilla\users 50.  I corrected all this in the 
more recently nightly build, specifying where account folders are to be kept
BEFORE importing address books - but I notice that even this nightly build
tends to put things into c:\unzip\users 50 if I don't watch it.

I think the user should be able to specify where the default users 50 location
is!  Just my thought.  Mail and address books are now integrated, but I have
to make sure that mozilla doesn't put new accounts in c:\unzip instead of
c:\mozilla.  Even c:\users 50 would be better than c:\unzip\users 50!
was in c:\mozilla 

Comment 3

[Peter 'Rufus' Nelson]

Marking Invalid (not a Moz problem) per reporters comments

reporter: try deleting moz*.dat from your windows directory, then running
mozilla from c:\mozilla and creating a new profile.  this should fix any
problems.  if it's still a problem delete moz*.dat from windows again and also
the user50 directory, then create a new profile again.

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

Not a mozilla problem. Marking as verified.