OK - It is not happening anymore; During the first mail in this thread I ran version 1.1.5. This issue seems not to happen again in 1.1.8.
Great piece of software ;)) >> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Markus Stoff wrote: >>>Tried it, but it seems to not have any effect at all. (bincimap version >>> is >>>1.1.8). >>>By the way - you meant the "src/mailbox/message.cc"'s function >>>"getInternalDate()", didn't you? >>>Thats where I changed it at line 127. >> >> Yes, you're right. :-) > > At least one single time in my life ... ;) > >>>Hmmm - I always thought the date is parsed out of the message from the >>> mail >>>clients - but it seems to me they get it somewhere explicit over the >>> imap >>>protocol. >>>Am I right at this point? >> >> The INTERNALDATE property of a message is in Maildir stored as the >> time(NULL) part of the message filename. So the Date: and Received: >> header >> lines are not part of this at all. >> >> What happens if you manually log in to the imap server, then do a >> 1 FETCH 1:* INTERNALDATE > > I have never tried to manually log in to an imap server. > However - I found how to log on: > > a001 LOGIN user passwd > a001 OK LOGIN completed > > and tried typing your line > > 1 FETCH 1:* INTERNALDATE > * NO Syntax Error: undefined or disallowed in current state > > wondered, and loged out > > a002 LOGOUT > * BYE Binc IMAP shutting down > a002 OK LOGOUT completed > > could you give me a pointer on where I did the mistake? > >> The dates that are listed in the response are the result of >> getInternalDate in message.cc. >> >> Andy :-) >> >> -- >> Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg >> Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum >> >> > > I hope i'm not wasting your time with stupid questions ... > > I'm wasting - had done a google search and found the missing part: a003 SELECT "INBOX" * ... There is even source code commented ... great project! :-))
