I have a number of malformed emails that I want to save in an archive. Before I archive them I want to make the dates right. Now they appear in Mutt with the date: 1970-01-01 00:00:00. I know what this date is, and from other records, I can assign a more honest date to each of them.
I had thought that I could edit into the email a Date: header with the correct date, but that doesn't seem to work, for me. I still get the Unix Epoch in the index display. I have editted in both Date: and Delivery-date: headers. I can see them when I open an email and visually read the headers. But I want that date to appear in the index as well. Where does Mutt get the date that it displays in 'index-format'? What is the correct format for that date? What does Mutt do with emails for which it cannot parse the date? Is there a secret database somewhere in which Mutt keeps what it thinks it the real date? Etc. Etc... I'm using Maildir format for all by emails. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net
