On Friday, November 18, 2005 2:51 AM cmaloney@cardgate.net wrote:
Can I fake Dovecot into thinking the messages arrived on a different date by including something in the message headers, or changing the date/time stamp of each file (but I don't know how to do this)?
'touch'... I'm sure a few minutes effort could produce a script to read the date from each message file, and 'touch' it.
I did a little script, but I had to rely on the topmost "Received:" header, as there are many plonkers out there who have their computer clocks set back before I was born... so the actual "Date:" header is unreliable. It works great, and all files seem to get the correct date.
Pine correctly picks out a date from the message (although it doesn't sort by this order), and Outlook Express just displays everything as the date which it (or Dovecot) first saw the message. Does Outlook rely on Dovecot's sorting/date information or does it do it's own?
This now may be a question for the Pine mailing list, but for some reason Pine is not displaying the messages in date order, or it *thinks* it is, but what is displayed is not in order.
Many thanks, Steve :)