[Dovecot] Received Date vs Date Header

[Jeff Grossman]

Nikolay Shopik wrote:
> On 01.12.2007 4:03, Jeff Grossman wrote:
>>
>> * 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"
>>
>
> That's usually depends on MUA. And as I remeber there is debates in TB 
> bugzilla - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216033

Okay, that makes sense.  But, I was using the 3.0a1pre build of 
Thunderbird which includes a Received Date column, but I guess they are 
not done with it yet.  It must not be asking for that information.  The 
two columns Received Date and Date in Thunderbird 3.0a1pre were the same.

I did a test with Squirrelmail and here is what I see:

* 50 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 7726 RFC822.SIZE 4992 INTERNALDATE "01-Dec-2007 
09:24:07 -0800" BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE TO CC FROM SUBJECT X-PRIORITY 
IMPORTANCE PRIORITY CONTENT-TYPE)] {214}
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:23:11 -0600
From: x
To:  debian-user at lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

It appears the client is asking for the Received Date, which is the 
INTERNALDATE and it gets the header date field.  But, what is 
interesting is that Squirrelmail will always show that e-mail as 9:23 
for me if I select the "Sort By Received Date" setting in the options.  
Oh, now reading the setting, it will only change the sort and not change 
what time is displayed.  I guess it will only show the time from the 
Date header and not from the Received header.

Jeff