On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:29 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > > DATE > > Sent date and time from the Date: header, adjusted by time > > zone. This differs from the SENTON criteria in SEARCH, which > > uses just the date and not the time, nor adjusts by time zone. > > If the sent date can not be determined (a Date: header is > > missing or can not be parsed), the INTERNALDATE for that > > message is used as the sent date. > > Very interesting... two different pages on the IETF's website have two > different texts for version 19 of that draft. Odd. > > Anyway, at best, it would seem that the text has multiple potential > interpretations, because the parenthetical explanation there of what > it means for a sent date to be un-determinable is different from (and > contradictory of) what it says in section 2.2 (which is what I > quoted).
I think you should bring these up in imap-protocol list. I noticed this only because I was comparing Dovecot's and UW-IMAP's SORT output and wondered why it was different.
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