Re: Fix dates via IMAP on messages

It is far from trivial; there's a huge variety of just completely weird/ambiguous date formats placed in Date:, usually by spamware (time zone non-existent or invalid? times that don't even exist due to DST? 01/02/2005 - is that Feb 1 or Jan 2? Guess by time zone ... or is 'EST' US or AU EST?). It'd be great if they were the only source - tag them at epoch, and they all get sorted out of the way. Unfortunately, there's a bunch of broken mail servers/clients out there just as bad, from people who've never read the RFCs. Trusting the Received header placed by your own mail server is usually a better idea - it's at least consistent, and matches what should be the time stamp on the maildir files rather than some clients idea of time. I wish I'd thought of it during migration to courier I had to do.

On 19/07/2006, at 4:01 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

It's far from trivial using the Date header.

Oh bugger off. Rick Adams' getdate.y can handle pretty much anything you throw at it. Face it: it dealt with all the crap bnews threw at it for close to two decades.

--lyndon
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