[Dovecot] Thunderbird 1.5 and messages with no Date: header

[Jan Kundrát]

grant beattie wrote:
> some of my Thunderbird users have a minor but annoying problem with
> messages that have no Date: header.
> 
> these clients use BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (Date)] as the date for
> messages. when a message has no Date: header, they display the
> date as 01/01/1970 10:00:00 because Dovecot returns empty string.
> 
> would it be possible for Dovecot to return INTERNALDATE instead, for
> messages that contain no Date: header? I know this is not
> *technically* correct, but it's a reasonable best-guess, and better
> than returning nothing. perhaps as a client-workaround?

Isn't it better to fix the MUA in question? Returning another value than
the one present in the header structure would break RFC 3501, IMHO.

Anyway, the Date header should be fixed/added by MTA (haven't read
RFC2822 but the ENVELOPE desription in 3501 seems to confirm my
interpretation).

Anyway #2, assuming that the message hasn't arrived via SMTP (as the MTA
would fix/add the Date header unless it's broken) and probably also not
via COPY or APPEND, I'm not sure how would INTERNALDATE help you - if
I'm reading the specification correctly, the behaviour is
implementation-defined in other cases :)

So in short, is there a report in Thunderbird's bug tracker?

Cheers,
-jkt

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