Hi dynamite,
On 28 July 2000 at 12:36:40 GMT +0100 (which was 12:36 where I
live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points on the subject
of "handling of blank Date: field":
MDP>> How peculiar! What was the originating email client (just out of
MDP>> interest)?
d> Can't really tell - all I can find in the header is "Post.Office MTA
d> v3.5.4 release 224". It was a mass mailing from my credit card
d> provider to warn of problems with the service...
I would complain to them about the use of a mass mailer which doesn't
set a valid message date. It's probably an optional RFC header so it
wouldn't be "wrong" per se, just inconvenient.
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
MDP>> clearly inferior MUA ;-).
d> That would be the purist's view, I guess. But since I usually sort by
d> Created date, it would be nice to have it handled "properly", IMHO.
Perhaps it is actually worthy of a bug report to RIT labs then (Help
-- feedback -- bug report). I also sort by creation date. You could
always drag the message to the outbox, tweak it, save it and drag it
back. That would give it a creation date.
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Cheers,
.\\arck
Marck D. Pearlstone, Consultant Software Engineer
Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA
www: http://www.silverstones.com
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