Sameer Vijay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I noticed that all the mails that I have, have this sort of syntax in
> the 'From ' field...
>
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 1 07:27:09 2000
This is not part of the mail proper; it is a Berkeley-style standard mbox
delimiter line.
> Note the year is at the end. My guess as to what adds this header to
> the email is the MTA, but I am not sure. I had seen it with qmail,
> sendmail, fetchmail+procmail as MDA.
Whatever adds it to the mbox file puts it in, if necessary. This can include
qmail if you are delivering directly to an mbox file.
> Is it a standard thing to have year at the end? This is not qmail
> related question but I guessed qmail would atleast do it right� if
> its the MTA.
Yes, that's the standard, and it's doing it right.
Charles
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