At 1:40 AM +0100 9/12/07, Ed W wrote:
Hi, I am testing dovecot 1.0.3 alongside my existing courier
installation and a number of my emails are heading to the top of the
inbox even though they are rather old. Closer inspection shows that
my mailclient (Thunderbird on Win32) is showing me some screwey
dates for a number of messages.
It would be very wrong for any IMAP or POP server to do anything more
than just pass along the Date header of a message as-is to a client.
One example is an email which says:
Date: 2007-08-21 11:42:43
But in TB I see the date shown as only:
03:27
ie just a time and no date
OK, the date above is clearly not an RFC date, but any idea why this
is showing up only under Dovecot? Is it a dovecot date handling
issue?
Are you able to look at the same message store via Courier? If so,
what does TBird show on that message when seen through Courier? I
expect it will be the same. You should also look at the message on
disk to see what it looks like if you want absolute confirmation that
the Date header is what it is without reference to which IMAP server
you use. Dovecot or Courier don't parse message headers for clients.
As you say, that Date header is improperly formatted. Whatever
generated that message is broken, and it is not really a bug for mail
clients (i.e. TBird) to choke on parsing it, although presenting
ANYTHING as a Date when the Date header can easily be detected as
improper is arguably a bug.
--
Bill Cole
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