Ant <[email protected]> writes: >Correct, but this is when using "Send Later" in Mozilla's SeaMonkey v2 >e-mail clients. Try this. Compose a test e-mail to a valid e-mail >address that you have access too. Tell SM2 to "Send Later". Wait a few >minutes/hours/days/whenever. Note its date and time. Do a "Send Unsent >Messages" of it. See the e-mails in the receive end. See its date and >time. Either it will be the date and time finished composing and sent >later OR at the sent date and time.
Ah. OK, so here's the story... SeaMonkey (and Thunderbird) fill in the Date header on a message when you do the File > Send Later command. According to the RFCs, the Date header is supposed to indicate the date-time at which the user indicated that the message was ready to be transported, not the date-time at which the message actually _is_ transported, so SeaMonkey's behavior is (in my opinion, and clearly also in the opinion of its developers ;-) correct. At the recipient's end, the mail user agent can choose to display either the date-time in the Date header, or the date-time when the message was received. Most of the time, they are within seconds of each other, so it doesn't really matter which one you look at, but there are three exceptions: 1. A message is delayed en route for one of any number of reasons. 2. A message is delayed because the user didn't send it right away, e.g., because he was offline when writing it and didn't send it until going online later. 3. A message has the wrong date in the Date header, either because the sender's clock is set improperly on his computer, or because the sender has inserted an incorrect Date header on purpose (a frequent occurrence with spam). Some software displays Date by default but allows the receive date-time to be displayed instead or in addition; some software displays the receve date-time by defeault but allows the Date to be displayed instead or in addition; and some software displays only one and doesn't allow the other. The risk of displaying Date instead of Received is if you sort your inbox by Date and somebody sends you a message with an incorrect, old Date value, it may get buried earlier in your inbox and you might miss it. Aside from that, for the vast majority of users it doesn't make much of a difference which one is displayed. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
