On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 08:05, John Summerfied wrote:
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > Anyone know of a procmail recipe to change the date on incoming
> > messages?
> >
> > If the date is in the future by more than 24 hours - I'd like to just
> > change it to the current date.
> >
> > If the date is in the past by more than two weeks - I'd like to just
> > change it to the current date.
> >
> > I'd like to do it in procmail - if someone knows how.
> > I've done some searching, still have some to do.
> >
> > Found some stuff on extracting the date, but not on modifying it if
> > necessary.
> >
>
> It seems to me that's a bit like altering the date on a cheque or
> old-fashioned paper missive.
>
> You could always add your own X-Received-At: header and use that, but
> I'd leave the original date alone.
>
> What say I say I wrote this letter at Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:03:27 +0800,
> and you've tampered with the date in your copy, perhaps because it was
> delayed a week (it happens)?
>
> The Received: headers give you a time trail. Leave Date: alone.
I think what he is trying to do is make the MTA sort on
'Date' make new messages show up in the message list in
the right place so you don't overlook them or push the
current ones off the screen. Do some MTA's let you base
this sort on the received timestamp instead of the date
header which is often wrong?
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Les Mikesell
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