On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 08:11:16PM +0000, Claus Assmann wrote: > The Date: header should have the date when the mail was sent, > the date in the From line should be the date when the mail was > written to the mailbox.
However, the date in the From line is local time in a potentially unknown timezone, so it's not possible to make inferences from it with any certainty. (It would be a good guess that the timezone is your own timezone, but that doesn't necessarily hold if the message was delivered in the past and you happened to be in a different location then. Even if it's your own timezone, there's ambiguity if the message arrived between 0100 and 0200 on a day when DST ended.) Of course current Mutt *does* use that date (if it can parse it) if you ask to sort the mailbox by Received, so maybe the point is moot. And I'm guessing that's why the new reverse_scan() function still tries to parse out the timestamp, which was what started this sub-thread. imc
