[Dovecot] receive date wrong in outlook

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 11:53 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> we migrate from exchange to dovecot. we do it with imapsync. first we
> try to do it with --syncinternaldates, but this fails on many messages
> with invalid date, so we drop this option. unfortunately after this
> those users who use outlook see the received date as the date we do the
> migration in stead of the real received date. other clients eg webmail,
> thunderbird etc sees the right date. so my question what can i do? it's
> a dovecot bug or outlook and if outlook's bug is there any workaround
> fro this?

The clients use either Date: header or IMAP INTERNALDATE. In some
clients it's configurable which one to use. I prefer INTERNALDATE
myself.

So the only solution would be to sync the internaldates as well. What do
you mean messages have invalid dates? As long as imapsync uses a
properly formatted date for APPEND, it shouldn't fail. Although I did
some fixes related to this in v1.0.1.

If exchange returns INTERNALDATEs with invalid format, imapsync could
figure this out itself and just not use it then.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20071021/2caec111/attachment.bin