86870 - Importing Mail from Outlook express displays incorrect message header

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P1)

Description

[Ayo]

Upon importing Mail from OutLook Express 5.0 I went to view a couple of my
messages and the found the messaeg bodies don't correspond to the messaeg
headers. This is a serious problem for those who want to start using MailNews
who are converting from Outlook Express because there messages aren't stored in
any order that can be retried unless you edit the mail file manually (which is a
pain in the ass wehen you have 4000+ messages) If this bug gets fixed is there
going to be a utility to extract proper dates from message bodies to fix already
spoiled mail conversions. If not I'm screwed.

Comment 1

[Chris Hiner]

*** Bug 88848 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

Makring NEW based on dupe.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

not an emojo stopper. 

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

hey srilatha, are you still focusing on outlook express import issues? do you
think this should go to you? Lemme know if that's not true....

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

Cavin, could this be a dup of the bug you just fixed regarding escaping "From"
at the beginning of a line?

Comment 6

[Cavin Song]

No, the fix I did was for Outlook and Eudora.  Outlook Express already has code
to handle this but it may break some special cases but I don't know for sure.

Reporter, is it possible for you to show us one or two msgs which causes the
problem? I think you have to see the bad imported msgs in the thread pane and
then find it in the mail file/folder, and cut and paste the msgs. Then attach it
to this bug.

Comment 7

[scottputterman]

[e-mail], do you have any sample messages/folders you can provide?

Comment 8

[Cavin Song]

Reporter, I think the fix for bug 89235 (checked in 2002-02-12) may also fix
this one so can you try the lastest build to verify it when you get a chance?

Comment 9

[Ayo]

I'm sorry I haven't responded sooner. I've been using mailnews more lately and
haven't expereinced the mismatched message header to message body problem. 

Also upon importing messages not all headers are marked as undread or read. I
think they should be marked as "READ/UNREAD" depending on how they were in the
program that created them. But if this can't be fixed I think they should be
marked all as "READ".

The only problem that I have experienced is that when trying to import messages
it prompts you for the mail directory? That is useful to users who know
something about computers but to the average "Joe Smuck" this would be
confusing. Mozilla should check the default directory first and then prompt for
the mail directory. 

Comment 10

[Cavin Song]

Reporter, looks like your original problem has been resolved and you should file
separate bugs for the two problems/issues you indicated.

Comment 11

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking Worksforme per reporter's statements in comment# 9.

Comment 12

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Worksforme.