Bug 5735

Summary:	Thunderbird email import not working
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Derek Jennings <derekjenn>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Florian Hubold <doktor5000>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	doktor5000, fundawang
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63389
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	thunderbird-10.0.4-1.mga2.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Derek Jennings 2012-05-03 15:07:18 CEST

Description of problem:
In Thunderbird  the wizard to import email does not offer any compatible file types

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mozilla-thunderbird-10.0.4-1  for both Mageia 1 and Mageia 2RC

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Thunderbird
2. Select Tools>Import>mail
3.  Observe pop up with empty box labelled 'Please select the type of file you would like to import'

According to Thunderbird documentation this box should contain a list of file types.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-04 17:27:08 CEST

CC: (none) => doktor5000, fundawang
Source RPM: mozilla-thunderbird-10.0.4-1.mga2.src.rpm => thunderbird-10.0.4-1.mga2.src.rpm

Comment 1 Florian Hubold 2012-05-05 09:42:34 CEST

Seems an upstream problem, also happens with binary tarballs. Will take a look.

Comment 2 Florian Hubold 2012-05-05 10:07:26 CEST

I've opened a bug report upstream. But it seems there are many problems in general with the import dialogs.

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM
Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
See Also: (none) => https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752180
Assignee: bugsquad => doktor5000

Comment 3 Florian Hubold 2012-05-06 17:48:31 CEST

Whoa - what a can of worms :( 
Please take a look at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63389

See Also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752180 => https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63389

Comment 4 Derek Jennings 2012-05-06 21:13:05 CEST

Thunderbird for windows comes with import filters for at Eudora and Outlook Express. I do not understand why the Linux version should not have the same.

If import is such a mess does it make sense to bundle the import/export tools extension into the Mageia Thunderbird package?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools

It does work importing messages in both mbox and maildir formats.

Comment 5 Florian Hubold 2012-05-07 21:09:23 CEST

FWIW, thunderbird in windows can only import stuff if those other mail programs are installed and set as default mailers, f.ex. it can't import outlook data without outlook being installed.

I'm a bit hesitating to include this by default, because you can just install it if you need it. So far noone expressed a need for this except in this report ...
But i'm not saying i'm totally against. I've got to think about it, after doing some investigations.

Comment 6 Florian Hubold 2012-05-09 21:07:31 CEST

After thinking about it some more, and talking to other packagers, i won't add this addon. In all the years i'm using thunderbird i've never heard any problems or complaints about the import function, and you can perfectly install that extensions manually. We try to keep the packaged extensions or even more the default extensions to a bare minimum for sustainability and maintainability.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX