Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz <at> uni-konstanz.de> writes: > > Hello Volker Then, > > you wrote: > > Some messages in the inbox view > > show a date of 1. Jan 1970, nevertheless messages are sorted correctly > > by date. I can see > > no problem with the messages' headers: > > > > Date: 08 Aug 2007 12:27:42 UT > > According to RFC 2822, Section 3.3 > <http://rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/2822/chapter3.html#sub3>, > the time zone is an obsolete format. In current format, > that date would read: > Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:27:42 +0200 > > RFC 2822, Section 4, says: > > Though some of these syntactic forms MUST NOT be generated according > > to the grammar in section 3, they MUST be accepted and parsed by a con- > > formant receiver. > > Hence, I deem it a bug if Imp does not correctly interprete that date. > If you can reproduce that bug with two messages only differing > in the date format (and the message-id, of course), you should > file a bug report. > > Best wishes, > Otto Stolz >
Sorry to be dragging up an old thread but I ran into this problem with spamcop.net's webmail package and traced back to IMP as a potential source of the problem. I too had read RFC 822 and 2822 when I ran into this problem and as stated above, 2822 says a client needs to properly deal with these obsoleted time formats (it just can't generate new email with the old formats). Is Otto a developer of IMP? His response conflicts with this bug report's response: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/5717 basically claiming it isn't a bug. Which is correct? Is it a bug by the definition of RFC 2822 Section 4? And is the problem in IMP itself or in PHP? I'm hesitant to submit a new bug report when the first one got slapped down. Cheers, Matt Zaleski -- IMP mailing list - Join the hunt: http://horde.org/bounties/#imp Frequently Asked Questions: http://horde.org/faq/ To unsubscribe, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
