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

[Jan Kundrát]

grant beattie wrote:
> the MTA (Exim) is configured to always add the Delivery-Date: header,
> and I'm sure I can make it add a missing Date: header.
> 
> but again, it doesn't fix it for all possible cases of where this
> problem might occur (different MTAs, configurations, etc.) if we
> acknowledge that the client is broken, and a suitable workaround is
> possible, I don't think implementing it as a client-workaround would
> be a bad thing.

If the incoming message doesn't contain the Date header, it isn't valid.
 Your MDA doesn't conform the the RFC 2822, IMHO.

>>Current Dovecot's behaviour seems correct (according to the RFC 3501).
> 
> 
> indeed. but how many perfectly RFC IMAP clients do you know of?
> afaik, there aren't any? :)

I'm writing one :)

Cheers,
-jkt

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