Tuesday, August 21, 2007, 3:52:02 PM, you wrote: > On Tuesday, August 21, 2007, at 14:19:40 [UTC-0400] (Tuesday, August 21, > 2007 20:19 my local time) Indie_Dev wrote:
>> 4) After importing a batch of emails from another program (e.g. TB), >> why is the 'received' date imported incorrectly? e.g. I recently >> switched from TB to TB! and imported a ton of emails going back many >> years. So now, I have - for e.g. - a folder with emails with received >> dates of 2007 with creation dates of far back as 1996 but filtered >> in the [threaded] view of 'Today' or 'Last Week' Thats just ridiculous. > The 'received' date is not a part of the message header, it is stored only > in the internal database of The Bat!. So, if you import messages from other > programs, The Bat! knows nothing about the the receiving in that program. > The Bat! uses current date and set it as 'receive' date. > When you retrieve (not import) messages from the archive, you retrieve all > information, including receive date for each message. Yes, I am aware of that. But that still does not answer my question as to _why_ its this way. Even removing the 'received' date field doesn't do any good due to the [unconventional] internal handling of the imported emails. btw, looking at the RFC standards, thats handled incorrectly to boot. The Bat! is using 'received' improperly as it pertains to _new_ emails (from the import), even though - according to RFC standards - the 'creation date' is what should determine that specific handling. -- cheers, Indie_Dev ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.99.20 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
