Wednesday, August 22, 2007, 7:30:15 PM, you wrote: > Hi Zygmunt, > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, at 22:45:03 [GMT +0200] (which was 22:45 where I live) > you wrote about: 'Interface Inconsistencies'
>>>> [...] 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. > After reading all the responses to this thread I think the only > sensible solution is for TB to have an option (during import) to set the > received date to the last Received date from the header or the current > date. No, I think the sensible solution is to _not_ mess with it _at_all_. Just import it as-is. Problem solved. No debate needed. So when you import your email, the received and created field will be identical since they decided that they'd go an complicate and confuse things by adding a header that is clearly _not_ required. Every email program has the subject, sender, recipient, data, size and then you have additional stuff like attachments and whatnot. So when my email from 1996 has a received 'date' of 1996 and then I expect it to TB! and it comes up under 'received' date of the day of the export and again under the 'created' date which is the actual and accurate data, its just wrong. And if you disable the 'received' field in TB!, then you lose that particular piece of information. As I write this email, I am staring at emails - all from today - with identical received and created dates. -- cheers, Indie_Dev ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.99.21 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
