On 2008-Jun-11, at 19:31 , erik quanstrom wrote:
right. since the date is attached when delivered to a mailbox, why doesn't this date change when it's delivered to a secondary mailbox? why is the assignment a magical property of the inbox?
Most likely it's just an artifact of the original UNIX mail implementation. The \n^From<sp> separator line got generated at initial delivery time, and the mail client used that as the display time in the message summaries (e.g. Date: not spoken here). Therefore it makes sense to preserve the initial separator line with it's date intact to ensure consistency for display purposes. Think of it as the UNIX ctime of the message.
--lyndon
