My current MUA (Apple Mail.app) only has two date options: Sent and
Received.
Sent is from the sending client, while Received is the timestamp whe
the email arrives at my POP/IMAP server's Inbox.
IMHO the "Sent" date is completely unneccessary - either the sender's
clock is wrong (unintended or deliberately forged (SPAM)) or it's only
a few seconds before the "Received" date anyway.
But there's a third date timestamp I'd be much more interested in than
Sent: the Fetched date. This is the timestamp when my MUA fetches this
email the first time.
Claris Emailer (MacOS 9, POP only, no IMAP) had this, and I used the
fetched date to find out when I started working in the morning because
fetching email always was my very first task, and when I stopped in
the evening (I read some very busy mailinglists, where every 2-3
minutes a new mail would show up).
Who needs the Sent date (and why)?
--
Marc
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