GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 538910
evolution can't import seamonkey email
Last modified: 2021-05-19 12:27:08 UTC
Please describe the problem: Description of problem: I can't import my netscape 7.2 email files into evolution, but get an error message saying that it couldn't find any Netscape (amoungst other) files to import. This has been an ongoing issue for as many versions of Mandriva as I can recall. I've tried first importing them into thunderbird, but that doesn't help. The files are in a subdirectory of .mozilla in the home directory, which doesn't seem difficult. Has this import utility _ever_ worked? Any suggestions on how to do this? Does anyone know where the code looks to find the Netscape email? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):2.12.0 How reproducible:for ever Steps to reproduce: Steps to Reproduce: 1.have existing email in netscape7.2, which installs its data in .mozilla in your home directory 2.file, import, import data and setting from older programs 3.fails as noted above. No useful info in error message. Actual results: It couldn't find any netscape (amoungst other) files Expected results: import it! Does this happen every time? yes Other information: I wonder if this has _ever_ worked? Reported problem with Mandriva - they haven't changed anything and regard it as upstream issue. Has occurred for several versions, both x86 and x86_64. It crashes silently. Where does it expect to find the files? Seems a very standard format to have them in .mozilla. I'd really like to convert extensive mail stuff to evolution! Tony Blackwell t.blackwell@uq.net.au
I'm not very familiar with the history or success rate of Evolution's importers. Any chance that you could generate a sample .mozilla directory, perhaps with a new user account and a few dummy or spam emails in it, then tar it up and attach it here after verifying you can't import it? Bit of a pain I know, and I apologize for that. But that would allow us to verify that we're getting the same results as you so we know we're fixing the right bug. (I'm assuming there's more than one bug in the importer.)
Created attachment 113035 [details] /home/testbod/.mozilla in tar format created new user testbod, left 5 choice spam emails on my ISP server, downloaded them to testbod's new netscape7.2 directories. Proved that evolution 2.12.0 on Mandriva 2008 x86_64 could not import - selected older program option which mentioned netscape, it failed instantly - said it found nothing. Changed ISP login in Netscape7.2 to dud string, generated tar of .mozilla. Upload to you failed (4Mb!), emptied cache directory and also deleted XUL.mfasl file of 2.5Mb. Here is the resulting 2nd attempt at tar file, attached. (Note: as a test, ran N7.2 with XUL.mfasl deleted - program promptly recreated it. You could do this if you really needed to reacreate my exact directory structure - probably not necessary.
Get my tar file? Any progress? Tony
Hrm, there doesn't seem to be a netscape importer in sources, it doesn't check for ~/.mozilla at all.
Strange to have a front end to do that. Any chance of adapting another import script to do it? We still need the functionality, and importing stuff from .mozilla is certainly still a current need. Good to hear back on the issue after 18/12! Regards, Tony
Any further progress on this? While it was originally reported for Netscape7.2, this is of course way out of date and unused now. The same directory structure and import needs apply to Seamonkey in the present time, March 2010. I'm still very keen to see this fixed. Regards, Tony
(In reply to comment #4) > Hrm, there doesn't seem to be a netscape importer in sources, it doesn't check > for ~/.mozilla at all. It probably checked for .netscape instead. Also see bug 214858.
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