65651 - offer facility to import mail from multiple NS 4.x profiles into the one NS6/Mozilla profile

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 13832

(MailNews Core :: Profile Migration, enhancement)

Description

[David Hallowell]

A posting on n.p.m.general was asking if there was a way to import mail from
multiple communicator profiles into the one Mozilla profile. This is because
NS4.x only supported single POP3 account and Mozilla supports multiple accounts
so they used to use multiple profiles to manage the mail when want to take
advantage of this feature and manage all their mail under one profile.

Two ways of implementing this:
1) An advanced option when migrating the profile from Netscape 4.x saying
something like "Would you like your mail from all communicator profiles imported
into a single profile?"
2) The import utility will have the option to import Communicator mail (at the
moment it only does Outlook and Endora), it would then pop up a list of profiles
you'd like to import from and you can select one or many profiles.

In fact I believe 2 should be implemented because the import utility doesn't
offer to import communicator mail at present and if someone wants to create a
fresh profile they may still want to import their Netscape mail.

Original news posting by: Alan Liddle <[e-mail]>

Comment 1

[updated address]

Why not simply drag and drop your 4x mail folders into your mozilla profile? 
These are text files and I do this manual transfer all the time, but without the 
*.snm files.

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this is a duplicate, I logged it a while back.  I think it is currently owned by
[e-mail]

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

This is the dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13832 ***

Comment 4

[Grace Bush]

verify duplicate