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Originally Posted by dkarp  The "date" there is meant to be the received date, not the date listed in the "Sent" header in the message. If your IMAP server is marking messages as received in 1965, I think it may have some issues.... |
The IMAP server is entirely correct... and IMAP servers do not typically mark messages as received at any date or time. That's usually done by the SMTP server.
However, your point is valid, in that... wtf is going on?! Well, the problem as I see it, is that these email folders were transfered from outlook, to Mozilla Mail on Windows, to Thunderbird under Linux, and finally to IMAP via a conversion script (moz mail format -> imap mbox) under Linux.
Since then, these email messages have sat on our mail server.. for about three years without anything of note happening to them. However, here's a snippet from the header of one of those messages:
From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965^M
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001^M
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00400000^M
From: "xxx"
^M
To: "xxx" ,^M
"Txxx" ,^M
"Nxxx" ,^M
"xxxx" ^M
Subject: weekly report^M
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:29:25 -0400^M
MIME-Version: 1.0^M
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;^M
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01C3_01C41BDC.A94E69E0"^M
X-Priority: 3^M
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal^M
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000^M
so yes, one of the conversion points over the last 7 years or so has indeed screwed the From initial header up. As a FYI, I ran a simple perl search and replace on the entire IMAP directory structure of each user affected, and simply changed the date line to sometime in 1985. This allowed the import without trouble.
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In the meanwhile, please file a bug against Zimbra to add a flag indicating that it should use the current date when a message is APPENDed with an invalid (too-early) date.
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I'd like to, but neither my forum or support login information seem valid in the bug system. [sarcasm]I tried to file a bug report against this, but.....[/sarcasm]
Anyhow, I have about five or six other bugs to report, so could someone fix my bug reporting issue?
Thanks