[Dovecot] Date Received question

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Oct 8 22:26:10 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 10:48 -0700, Timothy Martin wrote:
> I migrated from Courier to Dovecot, and today I notice that all my  
> "date received" fields in my client (apple mail) show as the approx  
> date/time of the migration rather than when the emails were received  
> from the smtp server.
> 
> Is this expected behavior? I normally sort by received date rather  
> than sent -- since I don't care when someone sends something as much  
> as when i get it. But those fields are totally bogus now.

In case you didn't yet figure this out, the received date is taken from
the maildir files' timestamps. You could write some script to fix them.
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