Re: [Dovecot] SORT(DATE) and missing Date headers

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:38 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:

Would it be possible to get Dovecot to fall back to Received header parsing whenever a message is missing a Date header? The idea is that SORT (DATE) would then become useful even in the face of commonly malformed email.

Unfortunately that would violate the SORT spec.

How hard would this be to hack into the current Dovecot source?

Replace mail_get_date() calls in src/imap/imap-sort.c with something like:

t = mail_get_date(..); if (t == (time_t)-1) t = mail_get_received_date(..);