--On 28 January 2010 12:20:26 +0100 Marc Stibane <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
That's true 99% of the time. For the other 1%, delays of several days are sometimes seen. For example, if the recipient is over quota when the message is sent. Emails to mailing lists can often be delayed for a few minutes, enough to change the sort order.
In those cases, it's often important to see the sent date. But there's a potentially interesting feature request: highlight messages which were delayed by more than an certain period.
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)?
-- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
