618480 - Importing e-mails from Outlook Express (WinXP) damages dates

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Marco A.G.Pinto [:marcoagpinto]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: 3.1.7

Hi!

I went to my PC with Windows XP and copied into a DVD the whole folder that had my e-mails of Outlook Express.

It was a 3 GB or 4 GB folder.

The e-mails were sorted by year: 1999, 2000, 2001, etc. which means there was a file for each one of them, for example: 1999.dbx

I then went to my laptop running Win7 x64 and copied the DVD into my hdd.

I tried to import the messages using Thunderbird but several dates are damaged... for example, in the 2000 folder I have emails with the year 1999 and I even have e-mails with strange years such as 1980 or 1970.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On WinXP copy folder of Outlook Express into DVD
2. On Win7 copy DVD into hdd
3. Using Thunderbird, try to import from the folder in the hdd
Actual Results:  
Several e-mails get the dates damaged including the year.

Expected Results:  
The dates should be correct. For example, in 1999 folder all e-mails should have the year 1999 and the same for the other years.

Comment 1

[Nikolay Shopik]

I think lot changes is done in Bug 207156, which completely rewrites import. you may give a try build from tryserver.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think lot changes is done in Bug 207156, which completely rewrites import.
> you may give a try build from tryserver.

Are outlook and outlook express using the same backup format ? Let's marks the bugs dependent.

Comment 3

[Mike Kaganski]

(In reply to comment #1)
(In reply to comment #2)
I'm afraid this is not correct. Unfortunately, the import from Outlook is completely different from import from OE, and cannot be merged, even in theory. So these bugs are independent.

Comment 4

[Nikolay Shopik]

Thanks Mike for explanation.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Outlook Express import code was removed a few years ago