> On Jun 6, 2018, at 1:41 PM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > > On 2 Jun 2018, at 1.03, Xavier Guerin <li...@applepine.org> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am using Dovecot 2.2.34p0 on OpenBSD 6.3 stable. >> >> I am writting an application using the vmime (http://www.vmime.org) >> library (x-ref issue: https://github.com/kisli/vmime/issues/199). >> >> I noticed through testing over my own e-mail server that in some >> situations the DATE field is not returned upon ENVELOPE or >> HEADER.FIELDS request. >> >> The e-mails at fault happen to have the DATE field at the very end of >> the header, after the MIME section. > > Can you easily reproduce this with doveadm? I can't, tested with current > master and v2.2.34. : > > % cat << EOF | doveadm save -u tss > Delivered-To: > Received: > Return-Path: > Delivered-To: > DKIM-Signature: > From: > To: > Message-ID: > Subject: > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:44:44 -0400 > > body > EOF > > % doveadm fetch -u tss hdr.date mailbox inbox '*' > hdr.date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:44:44 -0400 > > % doveadm fetch -u tss imap.envelope mailbox inbox '*' > imap.envelope: "Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:44:44 -0400" "" NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL > NIL "" > > I tested also with your example 2 mail, but it also worked. Maybe there's > something else special in those mails. If you can reproduce it with the above > commands, send me the exact mail as attachment that you used?
I reproduced your experiment and it does work. I double checked the raw content of the message and it turns out that the Date field has actually been omitted. I originally used “Evolution” to check the message source and apparently this tool shows the Date field even if it is missing. I believe this situation will have to be handled by the library I am using. Thanks !
