[Dovecot] Thunderbird 1.5 and messages with no Date: header

Jan Kundrát jkt at gentoo.org
Fri May 19 16:16:57 EEST 2006


grant beattie wrote:
> using INTERNALDATE instead, in this special-case workaround, would
> mean that messages don't show up with a zero date - and yes, it would
> help a lot. these are messages that are arriving via SMTP, so
> INTERNALDATE would represent the date that the message was delivered
> to the destination mailbox.

Well, fixing your SMTP's delivery agent to include the Date header seems
better to me. Is there anything preventing you from doing that?

Current Dovecot's behaviour seems correct (according to the RFC 3501).

Cheers,
-jkt

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