Tuesday, August 21, 2007, 11:37:50 PM, you wrote: > "Indie_Dev" wrote on 22/08/2007 at 08:17:44 +1100 > subject "Interface Inconsistencies" :
>> Tuesday, August 21, 2007, 4:45:03 PM, you wrote: >>> On Tuesday, August 21, 2007, at 22:11:09 [UTC+0200] (Tuesday, August 21, >>> 2007 22:11 my local time) Robert van der Hulst wrote: >>>>> [...] 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. >>>> That is not completely true. TB could extract the date from the >>>> 'Received' headers in the email. For example your message has the >>>> following Received headers in my message base: >>> Of course, The Bat! could use last Received date form the message header, >>> but as you know, this is the date when the message arrived to the server. >>> When you connect to the server tomorrow, The Bat! will receive the message >>> and >>> write internally the tomorrow date as 'receiving' date. From this point of >>> view >>> all is logically correct. >> uhm, er, wot? > Zygmunt Wereszczynski is quite right. The "Received" column means > "Received by TheBat!" and not "Received by the last mailserver". We _know_ that. But its wrong and unconventional. Apart from the fact that its not the RFC standard. The Bat is not technically receiving the email. It is being imported. It should _leave_ the headers as they are without injecting that condition in it, which is what is causing the problem. > I could imagine that TheBat! adds some lines to the header of the > eMail. Maybe in this form: > Received: from 206.190.53.232 (EHLO mta232.mail.re2.yahoo.com) > (206.190.53.232) > by The Bat! (v3.xxx) UNREG(!) with POP3; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:31:20 +1100 > Received: from 87.234.203.180 (EHLO thrall.0x539.de) (87.234.203.180) > by mta232.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:25:29 -0700 > Then, even if eMail is exported, the original date of firs receiving > is still there. But for which purpose? It makes no sense and I have no idea why they do it. You can - like every other email program I've used - import email as-is without messing with the received date that is _already_ in the header. -- cheers, Indie_Dev ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.99.20 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
