On November 4, 1999 at 16:04, Nathaniel Irons wrote:
> So Joe User turns the clock back a year on his PC, to get around an
> expiration date on some software package he wants to use, and forgets to
> reset the clock when he's done. Then he sends your mailing list a
> message, timestamped as it leaves his pop client with some goofy date.
> Your script, as written, will dutifully extract the date header, parse
> it, and spool to the wrong directory, because you relied on bad data.
This is a reason why MHonArc (by default) keys off the Received header
for the date of the message. Pre-processing scripts may want
to the same.
--ewh
