627218 - cannot import evolution data into thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 276239

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[hlhowell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110103 Fedora/3.6.13-1.fc14 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: 3.1.7

I received a new computer with Windows 7 on it.  No email client.  I tried Evolution, but it crashes the system.  I want to move everything to thunderbird, but there doesn't appear to be a migration path.  I cannot find any information anywhere that reflects a fool proof way of retrieving either the old files from the original outlook account, the old PST files I used for the evolution migration, nor to use the existing evolution files.  This is important for me to move forward.

System Windows 7 64 bit AMD 64 processor is the operating system fully updated.


Please help.

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load evolution
2.Choose import
3.No mail client found
Actual Results:  
could not import my files, and no option to load the ".pst" files or any other way to access the stuff off of the backup disk, the other computer, nor evolution folders.

Expected Results:  
choes import
chose some method
get a window to select the files source (PST, evolution or whatever.)
import files.
This should also work for addresses.  This is vital to changing email clients.


This effectively limits the spread of thunderbird, and in my case is a work stopper.  This prevents me from moving to thunderbird in any meaningful way.  I also noticed that export limitations seem to exist as well.

Comment 1

[hlhowell]

I cannot use thunderbird until this is resolved, nor can I retrieve or update mail folders, for fear of losing vital data.

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Thunderbird can import mbox files (which evolution should be capable of exporting); see this page: <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_folders>.

For address books, Thunderbird can import standard ldif files, which evolution should be able to export.