[hmmm... did it again... answered my question as I was composing it... but thought the group might be interested...] Original question ================= Greetings! This is a minor annoyance, but I thought I'd ask about it anyway. If I postpone a message and send it, say, three days later, the "^From " line that gets sent with the message (at least in my own bcc'd copy) contains the date and time corresponding to when I last postponed the message (i.e., three days ago). So my bcc'd copy of such a message that I send will have the "correct" date in the Date: header, i.e., the Date: header will contain the date and time at which I sent the message. But the "^From " line will have a date from three days ago (in my current example). This messes up the date-received order of a mail folder. I realize I could sort the folder by date, and the message would appear in the correct order, but sometimes I need to sort by date-received. Can I somehow get mutt to send "fresh" "^From " lines when sending postponed messages? This seems like a bug to me, as it misrepresents the date and time a message was received. Thanks! David Answer ====== The stale "^From " lines were showing up in my bcc copies, so I thought I better see if they showed up in actual received copies of the postponed-but-then-sent messages. So I went into my postponed folder and sent a message to another of my accounts. The "^From " line contained the "fresh" date, i.e., a time which occurred after the message was actually sent. Then it dawned on me: when I keep copies of non-mailing-list email that I send to folks, I use *fcc*, not bcc to keep a copy! And fcc just blindly appends the message to a file, whereas actually sending the message, a recipient (whether a To:, Cc:, or Bcc: recipient) has the advantage of their local mail transport agent inserting the correct date in the "^From " line. (Oh yeah, I forgot that the MTA does that. [sound of palm hitting head]) So, now I'll bcc myself instead of fcc'ing a folder when I send previously postponed messages. No bug. User error! :-) -- Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors.
