On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 08:11:16PM +0000, Claus Assmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2026, Derek Martin wrote: > > > IIRC the date > > in a From_ line is not interesting because the e-mail should carry the > > Date header, > > The difference between those two can be interesting, esp. when there > are (large) delays; together with the dates in the Received: headers > it helps to figure out where a delay might have happened.
Only if the delay was your local MDA, and only if it writes the date, and only if the server's time was correct at the time, etc.. In all other cases the Received headers will tell the tale. In any case if you're really trying to troubleshoot the mail system performance, you want to use log timestamps, not potentially unreliable info in an mbox file. But more to the point: What is Mutt going to do with that info? It shouldn't be displaying it in the index; that should be the date the message was sent, i.e. the Date header. The vast majority of users are not going to care what timestamp is on the From_ line, and those who do for some incomprehensible reason can just look at the mbox file. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
