Hi there!
On 5 Jan 00, at 1:29, Peter Steiner wrote
about "Re: Purging folders for old message":
> So you were not talking about the mailbox format...
>
> If I export your message to UNIX mailbox format it looks like:
>
> >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 5 01:01:15 2000
[....]
> I was referring to this first line which shows my local time when i
> got the mail from my POP server (the received time from TB!).
I just didn't get your point. Thought you've referring to the Date: header
somehow.
> There we have the correct received time (correct unless you prefer the time
> when the mail reached your POP mailbox, not when you fetched it ;-)
Yes, but look below...
> > TB *must* put it's *own* Received: field, and that's all. Like:
>
> > Received: by TB 1.38e; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 00:39:15 +0300 (MSK)
>
> > Don't you think this would solve the problem discussed?
>
> It would indeed be a way to save the received time in the headers.
> But what if some server had its time set somewhere in the future?
> Then TB!, looking for the latest time in the Received: headers,
> would find this future time...
But this last (or topmost) Received: stamp should be machine-dependant, not
otherwise. Right now TB does just the same, but putting this info into the folder
index file directly. This results in:
1. If the message is got from the POP or IMAP, all's correct unless the index
gets corrupted. Then, on re-indexing, the received date will pretty likely be
unset to the current date/time, which could result in erratic behaviour;
2. If the message is imported somehow, the received stamp in folder index is
set to "now", resulting in numerous inconveniences.
So what I'm suggesting is:
1. If the message is received trough POP/IMAP, TB should put the Received:
header with the *current* time (the time of the receiving);
2. If the message is imported, TB should consult the latest Received: date
found in the headers.
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