>> The Bat is a POP3 mail client (IMAP access is secondary, and
>> incomplete). The POP3 servers don't give to the client any kind of
>> indication of the time of arrival of the message. So there's simply
>> no way that The Bat! (or any other pop3 client) can show you that
>> time.
DK> Order in which messages are downloaded from server and stored in TB!s
DK> message database. That would be "don't sort" setting or "sort by place
DK> in database". Simplest of all. It shouldn't be _that hard_ to
DK> implement, would it? :)
I don't understand what you are asking for in that paragraph, but I
guess it has nothing to do with "Received-in-the-Server Time". Am I
right?
If you want the option to sort messages based on the order of entry to
TB's database, then sort by "Received Time" ! The messages are
inserted to the database in the same order they are received!
DK> Look at first and second received line - server1.ouroboros.hr is my
DK> mail server. I'm not an expert, but isn't 23:10:11 time when my server
DK> received your message? Simply looking at the date and time of first
DK> received line in message should do it.
You are probably right. As long as the Received headers have a
standard format, one that warrants that the date and time of arrival
can be always found at the end of the header. A very informal and
quick survey in my own inbox shows that it's right, but you should
check the corresponding RFC to be sure.
I would suggest that you add this request to the Bugtrack database (in
the wishlist) but not as a "rectification" of the received time,
because I think that it's ok as it is now. I would ask for a third
Timestamp column in the list: "Created time", "Received Time", and the
new "Received in Server Time".
>> You say that you have seen this functionality "in all mail clients
>> before TB". May I ask wich one?. I really don't think that can be
>> right.
DK> Eudora. By default, messages are not sorted (or, they're "sorted as
DK> placed in database") - and then eventually you can sort them by time.
DK> I don't know which time (received?) but I don't remember any problems
DK> with sorting messages in Eudora. In TB! I'm never quite sure.
So: you say that Eudora had this functionality. But you are not sure
if it did :)
DK> And when I accidentaly delete message, it's a pain to find it again -
DK> in Eudora, I simply switched to Trash and checked the message at the
DK> bottom of the list.
Great for Eudora. And what kind of problem do you have with TB?
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| Usando The Bat! 1.60c
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