On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:26 PM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote:
> I just created an intelligent mailbox to find the new stuff from today and
> yesterday.
> Clicking on the mailbox, I get a new column named "read on" (translated from
> german version), and every email showing in that mailbox is marked read on
> "01.01.1970, 01:00". Obviously strange, b'cause Steve Jobs was by then still
> in school and Apple was a fruit....
You might already know this, but midnight UTC of January 1, 1970, represents
the beginning of POSIX standard time or Unix time. It's colloquially referred
to as "the epoch." :)
I had a similar problem with a few messages that had "Sent" dates of 1970. As I
recall, the message was time-stamped correctly in its headers, but there was
another date field somewhere that caused Mail to mis-label the date.
The problem annoyed me because it affected how my messages were sorted in the
mailbox, so I went to the Terminal and dug into the individual files
representing each of the mail messages, then manually changed the dates to
something more sane.
I'm not sure about the "Read On" field, but I suggest going into Terminal and
looking at the content of a few of the offending messages to see what you can
uncover. Be sure to make backups before changing anything.
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