On 01/21/09 15:52, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: > HeavyDuty wrote: >> chicagofan wrote: >>> HeavyDuty wrote: >>>> chicagofan wrote: >>>>> What is happening when received messages are duplicated.... with a >>>>> date of 12/31/1969? bj [SM l.l.ll] >>>> Are ALL your messages duplicated and with that date, or just some? >>>> While I have not a clue, I would suspect a problem with the e-mail host. >>> >>> Just some.... >>> >>> I thought it was just on mail from a friend who uses Apple, but after a >>> couple of days of just some of her messages duplicating that way, I got >>> one from a friend who uses AOL, right behind the other one's message. >>> Don't know if they were related, I failed to check if maybe it was a >>> reply to one of the Apple messages. >>> >>> I didn't know if it was Microsoft or Apple related perhaps, since I'm >>> the only >>> one who doesn't use MS based e-mail [except the 1 friend using Apple]. >>> bj >>> >>> >> Unless you are suggesting Seamonkey is problematic running under Mac OS, >> I doubt if there is any difference on what computer or OS messages >> originate. >> >> While no expert, I believe seamonkey gets the time stamp for each >> message from the received e-mail (which has Universal Time ) and shows >> it based on your computer's time clock. >> >> If your friend's computer's clock is really messed up, it would send a >> wrong time. I doubt any currently operating computer BIOS would default >> back to 1969, so it would have to be set intentionally. > > sorry to say, but many people DO get messages dated > 1969, including me. Furthermore, just recently I've > been receiving messages dated 2033, 2050, and even 2075. >
Well, in some cases, the sender is specifically setting errant dates in the hope that your (sorted) inbox will place them at the end you're looking at. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
