[Dovecot] Sent Date/time vs Received Date/time

Nicolas KOWALSKI nicolas.kowalski at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 16:01:08 EEST 2008


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:43:02AM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> In my mind, there should be two primary date/time columns:
> 
> Sent Date/Time = Date/time of the Client system when message was sent
> (this is already there as the plain 'Date' column)
> 
> and
> 
> Received Date/Time = Date/time the receiving SERVER DELIVERED it

[...]

> The main question is - is there a proper IMAP/RFC for providing/getting
> this date/time?

I think this is called INTERNALDATE in the IMAP world (see rfc2060).

-- 
Nicolas


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