[Dovecot] Date error bug

[Bgs]

Thanks for the quick actions! We will try the patch first time tomorrow. 
We are testing dovecot, we will probably migrate to it ;)

Bye
Bgs

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 10:26 +0200, Bgs wrote:
>> I encountered a bug, that prevents me from moving mail and as a side 
>> effect it messes up all thunderbird/mozilla mail clients (they won't do 
>> any message copy/move until I restart them).
> ..
>> Date: Tue, 15 May 2085 16:51:38 -0800
> 
> The error message says "Invalid internal date". I see two problems here:
> 
> 1. Date: header isn't the same as internal date. Internal date is the
> date when the message was saved.
> 
> 2. COPY command doesn't do anything special with Date: header. It
> especially doesn't try to put it to internal date field.
> 
> So it looks like when copying/moving a message Thunderbird goes and
> uploads the message with APPEND command and moves Date: header to
> INTERNALDATE. If it really does this, it's pretty bad behavior.
> 
> Anyway, it still is a Dovecot bug that it doesn't accept such internal
> dates. Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/2460c70d1ffb
> 
> (and http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/12631f82e897 but that's only
> a comment change)
>