On 11.04.2007 20:15 CE(S)T, Donald Nash wrote: > Keep in mind that the Date: header isn't particularly reliable either, > since it depends on the sender's clock being correct. Besides, it's all > about the user's perspective. Some people want to know when a message was > sent, and some want to know when it landed in their mailbox. Neither one > is definitively right, they are both valid. That's why IMAP supports both.
What about reading the date from the first Received: header in the message? This should always come from the recipient's MTA. And if the user can trust his mail provider to have their system set to a precise time (so only the recipient's ISP must be trusted instead of each sender's local system), this is probably exactly what the user wants to see: When did the e-mail actually arrive in his mailbox. Not how long it already waited in the sender's outbox and not when the IMAP mailstore was last edited. -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
