On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:15:12PM -0500, Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Michael Weinberger wrote: > > > > > This can result in a confusing behaviour. Example: > > > A mail has been sent to you last week. The mail is stored in Maildir/new. > > > Today you check your mailbox. This mail then is moved to the Maildir/cur. > > > With UW-IMAP, the timestamp will change. If you use a mail client, which use > > > the 'internal date' as the 'arrival date' the message appears as received > > > today. > > > > I don't understand how the mail client is getting the "internal date" > > (which is no longer "internal" once it is exported from the IMAP daemon > > environment). There's obviously something that I don't understand. Is > > there part of the IMAP protocol which sends this "internal" concept of > > date to the client? > > IMAP has the Internal Date Message Attribute, which ostensibly tells > you when the message was delivered. A good idea, poorly thought out > and even poorer in implementation, if you will. My original question stands though. 'Is there part of the IMAP protocol which sends this "internal" concept of date to the client?' I don't see it in the RFC if there is. AFAICT, the "Internal Date Message Attribute" is just used internal to the IMAP server for sorting. So what is Outlook using when it displays "arrival date"? -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
