Friday, July 28, 2000, 12:12:12 PM, Marck wrote:
MDP> Hi dynamite,
MDP> On 28 July 2000 at 11:54:50 GMT +0100 (which was 11:54 where I
MDP> live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points on the subject
MDP> of "handling of blank Date: field":
d>> I just received an email from a list server which had a blank Date:
d>> field in the header.
MDP> How peculiar! What was the originating email client (just out of
MDP> interest)?
Can't really tell - all I can find in the header is "Post.Office MTA
v3.5.4 release 224". It was a mass mailing from my credit card
provider to warn of problems with the service...
d>> This caused TB! to set the Created date to 1 Jan 1980, 01:00. Would
d>> it not make more sense for it to copy the Received date into the
d>> Created date field, if none is given?
MDP> Nah - it's a good opportunity to recommend TB to the user of a clearly
MDP> inferior MUA ;-).
That would be the purist's view, I guess. But since I usually sort by
Created date, it would be nice to have it handled "properly", IMHO.
Niels
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