[Dovecot] Received Date vs Date Header

Jeff Grossman jeff at stikman.com
Sat Dec 1 03:03:49 EET 2007


I am trying to figure out why my mail clients are not correctly showing 
me the received date versus the date header date.  I am using Dovecot 
1.1B9.  Here is a copy of the rawlog from Dovecot when I started up the 
client.  Is Dovecot supposed to be sending the received date and the 
date header during this conversation?

* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2007-11-30 16:48:31
* NAMESPACE (("" ".")) NIL NIL
3 OK Namespace completed.
* LSUB () "." "Junk E-mail"
* LSUB () "." "Deleted Items"
* LSUB () "." "Drafts"
* LSUB () "." "Ham"
* LSUB () "." "INBOX"
* LSUB () "." "Keep Messages"
* LSUB () "." "Mailing Lists"
* LSUB () "." "Sent Items"
* LSUB () "." "Spam"
* LSUB () "." "Other"
* LSUB () "." "Inbox2"
* LSUB () "." "Dovecot"
* LSUB () "." "MIMEDefang"
* LSUB () "." "Beta"
* LSUB () "." "Debian"
* LSUB () "." "Leafnode"
* LSUB () "." "Sendmail"
4 OK Lsub completed.
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX"
5 OK List completed.
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded $MDNSent 
Junk NonJu:
nk)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft 
$Forwarded $MDNSent Junk NonJunk \*)] Flags permitted.
* 19 EXISTS
* 2 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 17] First unseen.
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1191346544] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 7608] Predicted next UID
6 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
* 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 5)
* 2 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 5707)
* 3 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7042)
* 4 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7103)
* 5 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7110)
* 6 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7183)
* 7 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7237)
* 8 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7334)
* 9 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7353)
* 10 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen) UID 7355)
* 11 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7364)
* 12 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7482)
* 13 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7485)
* 14 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7496)
* 15 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7546)
:
* 16 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7555)
* 17 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 7605)
* 18 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent) UID 7606)
* 19 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent) UID 7607)
7 OK Fetch completed.
* 18 FETCH (UID 7606 RFC822.SIZE 4589 FLAGS (\Recent) BODY[HEADER.FIELDS 
(FROM TO CC SUBJECT DATE MESSAGE-ID PRIORITY X-PRIORITY REFERENCES 
NEWSGROUPS IN-REPLY-(END)
TO CONTENT-TYPE)] {352}
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:24:32 -0800
Subject: x
From: x
To: x
Message-ID: <C375DBB0.416E%x>
Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"

)
* 19 FETCH (UID 7607 RFC822.SIZE 4590 FLAGS (\Recent) BODY[HEADER.FIELDS 
(FROM TO CC SUBJECT DATE MESSAGE-ID PRIORITY X-PRIORITY REFERENCES 
NEWSGROUPS IN-REPLY-TO CONTENT-TYPE)] {353}
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:25:23 -0800
Subject: x
From: x
To: x
Message-ID: <C375DBE2.416F%x>
Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"

)
8 OK Fetch completed.
+ idling

I am using Maildir and the date and time of those files from "ls -l" are 
"2007-11-30 16:48" and "2007-11-30 16:49".  The mail client 
(Thunderbird) showed the received date/time and date date/time as 
"2007-11-30 3:24" and "2007-11-30 3:25"

Thanks for any help you can offer me.

Jeff


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