I wish PowerMail (and every email client) had a "bozo button" to sort emails on the correct date sent. I can't tell you how often I have messages missorted (usually from a list serve) because someone hasn't set the date or location of his/her computer correctly. [FWIW, these bozos are universally Windows users]. All the information to figure out the correct date is in the headers, because it is nearly impossible that a mail relay would have this information wrong. Wouldn't it be easy to use the "Received" headers, and not the "Date" header for sorting?
Eg: >Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivery-date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:42:00 -0500 >Received: from aharper by gpl.opensourcehost.com with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.24) > id 1AgSYB-00064o-Fy > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:42:00 -0500 >Received: from [209.209.44.2] (helo=npogroups.org) > by gpl.opensourcehost.com with esmtp (Exim 4.24) > id 1AgSYB-00064a-01 > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:41:59 -0500 >Received: by npogroups.org (Postfix, from userid 1010) > id 26EB27C1B6; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:43:28 -0800 (PST) >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Received: from test.dns.midcoast.com (test.dns.midcoast.com [69.39.100.30]) > by npogroups.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B8E47C113 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:43:08 -0800 (PST) >Received: from ibm23chvy4 (p-0-31.du.midcoast.com [12.149.230.31]) > by test.dns.midcoast.com (Postfix) with SMTP > id 7587758C77; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:40:55 -0500 (EST) >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "Bob Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@test.dns.midcoast.com> >Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:45:20 -0800 <- should be "- 0500", also clock is incorrect >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 >Subject: [ebase2] You May have a virus As might be expected, the email in question is from one of those deluded people who think that a normal Windows system file is "infected" with a virus. A -- You can't outlaw stupidity, but sometimes you can engineer around it.
