On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Scot W. Hetzel wrote:
> > Weird... I used cyrdeliver to migrate my maildirs to cyrus and all dates
> > looked OK. Hmm. Maybe the mailclient I use does the sorting here, making
> > my mailboxes look OK after the migration.
> >
> That's possible that your mailclient uses a different way of obtaining the
> received date. If you try OE, it will show the received date on the message
> you migrated as the date the message was placed in the folder.
I ran into this too.. Outlook 2000 (not OE) uses the INTERNALDATE field
for displaying the date, instead of parsing the From line. Here's a
quick patch to reconstruct that will work around this partially.
(note: patch is against 2.0.6, might not work on more recent versions)
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< message_index.internaldate = sbuf.st_mtime;
---
> /* changed this to deal with outlook braindamage - it uses
> INTERNALDATE as its "Received" date in display.. */
>
> message_index.internaldate = -1;
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>
> if (message_index.internaldate == -1) {
> message_index.internaldate = message_index.sentdate;
> }
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Eric Sorenson - Systems / Network Administrator - Transmeta Corporation
