507240 - unable to import contacts from a tab seperated file(from outlook)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 194095

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[feanor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090716 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5.1
Build Identifier: thunderbird3 beta3

the tab file has more entrys(tab seperated) then thunderbird has contact entrys. So all entrys in the file are ingored. that means i cant import the email address. 
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.export outlook contacts(tabseperated)
2.import in thunderbird(.tab)
3.not all fields from the file are available to import

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Can you provide a one-line example that doesn't import correctly?

Comment 2

[feanor]

Attachment: tab seperated list with 2 lines a 60 fields

i can't import fields higher than 36

Comment 3

[feanor]

it's a generated with a script but it should demonstrate a outlook .tab export

Comment 4

[feanor]

Attachment: comma seperated file 2 lines a 60 fields

also applies on .csv files

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Thanks for adding the examples, turns out this is a duplicate of bug 194095, therefore marking as such.