[Dovecot] Received Date vs Date Header

[Nikolay Shopik]

On 01.12.2007 4:03, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> I am trying to figure out why my mail clients are not correctly 
> showing me the received date versus the date header date.  I am using 
> Dovecot 1.1B9.  Here is a copy of the rawlog from Dovecot when I 
> started up the client.  Is Dovecot supposed to be sending the received 
> date and the date header during this conversation?
>
> * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2007-11-30 16:48:31
> * NAMESPACE (("" ".")) NIL NIL
> 3 OK Namespace completed.
> * LSUB () "." "Junk E-mail"
> * LSUB () "." "Deleted Items"
> * LSUB () "." "Drafts"
> * LSUB () "." "Ham"
> * LSUB () "." "INBOX"
> * LSUB () "." "Keep Messages"
> * LSUB () "." "Mailing Lists"
> * LSUB () "." "Sent Items"
> * LSUB () "." "Spam"
> * LSUB () "." "Other"
> * LSUB () "." "Inbox2"
> * LSUB () "." "Dovecot"
> * LSUB () "." "MIMEDefang"
> * LSUB () "." "Beta"
> * LSUB () "." "Debian"
> * LSUB () "." "Leafnode"
> * LSUB () "." "Sendmail"
> 4 OK Lsub completed.
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX"
> 5 OK List completed.
> * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded $MDNSent 
> Junk NonJu:
> nk)
> * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft 
> $Forwarded $MDNSent Junk NonJunk \*)] Flags permitted.
> * 19 EXISTS
> * 2 RECENT
> * OK [UNSEEN 17] First unseen.
> * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1191346544] UIDs valid
> * OK [UIDNEXT 7608] Predicted next UID
> 6 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
> * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 5)
> * 2 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 5707)
> * 3 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7042)
> * 4 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7103)
> * 5 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7110)
> * 6 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7183)
> * 7 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7237)
> * 8 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7334)
> * 9 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7353)
> * 10 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen) UID 7355)
> * 11 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7364)
> * 12 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7482)
> * 13 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7485)
> * 14 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7496)
> * 15 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7546)
> :
> * 16 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7555)
> * 17 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 7605)
> * 18 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent) UID 7606)
> * 19 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent) UID 7607)
> 7 OK Fetch completed.
> * 18 FETCH (UID 7606 RFC822.SIZE 4589 FLAGS (\Recent) 
> BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (FROM TO CC SUBJECT DATE MESSAGE-ID PRIORITY 
> X-PRIORITY REFERENCES NEWSGROUPS IN-REPLY-(END)
> TO CONTENT-TYPE)] {352}
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:24:32 -0800
> Subject: x
> From: x
> To: x
> Message-ID: <C375DBB0.416E%x>
> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> )
> * 19 FETCH (UID 7607 RFC822.SIZE 4590 FLAGS (\Recent) 
> BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (FROM TO CC SUBJECT DATE MESSAGE-ID PRIORITY 
> X-PRIORITY REFERENCES NEWSGROUPS IN-REPLY-TO CONTENT-TYPE)] {353}
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:25:23 -0800
> Subject: x
> From: x
> To: x
> Message-ID: <C375DBE2.416F%x>
> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> )
> 8 OK Fetch completed.
> + idling
>
> I am using Maildir and the date and time of those files from "ls -l" 
> are "2007-11-30 16:48" and "2007-11-30 16:49".  The mail client 
> (Thunderbird) showed the received date/time and date date/time as 
> "2007-11-30 3:24" and "2007-11-30 3:25"
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer me.
>
> Jeff

That's usually depends on MUA. And as I remeber there is debates in TB 
bugzilla - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216033