Am 18.03.2011 um 17.00 schrieb Matt Penna:
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.
Thx your reply, Matt.
I ignored "the epoch", indeed I had any idea of that. Well, I'm not
too familiar with Termin al and shell commands, and as the problem
only exists in that specific intelligent mailbox (in other mailboxes,
the mails show up properly), I will leave it like that for not getting
deeper into troubles. :-)
Rudolf
--
The basics for a more liberal world:
If there's no necessity to make a law, there's a necessity to make no
law.
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