Katsumi Yamaoka <[email protected]> wrote: >> When I delay a message with C-c C-j, the message gets a >> Date header with the current time (visible in the delayed >> group) that is not filtered when the message is sent. This >> results in a message sent at time Y that is clearly labelled >> as having been written at time X - though in most cases I >> would assume the intention would be to pretend it having >> been written at time Y. Is this an issue with my setup >> (Gnus 5.13) or is my use case so uncommon? :-)
> The present behavior seems faithful to RFC2822: > ,---- > | 3.6.1. The origination date field 3.6.1. > | [...] > | The origination date specifies the date and time at which the > | creator of the message indicated that the message was complete > | and ready to enter the mail delivery system. For instance, this > | might be the time that a user pushes the "send" or "submit" > | button in an application program. In any case, it is > | specifically not intended to convey the time that the message is > | actually transported, but rather the time at which the human or > | other creator of the message has put the message into its final > | form, ready for transport. (For example, a portable computer > | user who is not connected to a network might queue a message for > | delivery. The origination date is intended to contain the date > | and time that the user queued the message, not the time when the > | user connected to the network to send the message.) > `---- Well, it probably depends whether Gnus considers itself a MUA or a MTA :-). *If* the latter, I would expect a delay string of "when online on network X" rather than wall-clock time :-). > You can easily override it though. ;-p > (defadvice gnus-draft-send (around remove-date-header-from-delayed-message > activate) > "Remove Date header from delayed message in order to be redone." > (if (equal (ad-get-arg 1) "nndraft:delayed") > (let ((gnus-message-setup-hook > (cons (lambda nil > (save-restriction > (message-narrow-to-headers) > (if (re-search-forward "^Date:.*\n" nil t) > (replace-match "")))) > gnus-message-setup-hook))) > ad-do-it) > ad-do-it)) I *wanted* to ask why not to advise gnus-delay-send-queue, which seems to be the more "natural" place to do so, then I wondered how you could then set a Date header if you wanted to, so I started debugging where the Date header actually comes from :-). The result was that the Date header gets in- serted due to message-draft-headers. Deleting Date from that solved the issue. The only downside I could find so far was that the drafts and delayed groups can no longer be sorted by date; are there any other disadvantages I overlooked? Tim _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
