Re: DbMail Outlook Received Date

that's probably a design flaw :$ i don't know what the rfc's say about 
the internal date of a message when copying it, we'll check this out if 
none on this list knows the answer :) For the time being, you might 
create a simple perl script fixing this issue; you could use something 
like:

* connect to the imap server
* connect to the database
* send "fetch 1:* (uid body[header.fields (date)])" for each folder to 
the server
* parse each response item to give the message-uid and the date
* for each response item send "update messages set internal_date = 
$date_from_imap_server where message_idnr = $uid_from _imap_server)

it's probably a lot faster to query&parse the date header field 
directly from the database but if time is not much of an issue this is 
the easiest way to fix it.

regards roel

Op 26-feb-04 om 16:16 heeft Ronny Walter het volgende geschreven:

> Hello DBMail users,
>
> I installed DBMail (1.2.3) on my server and copied a lot of emails to 
> an folder in dbmail. Problem is the "received date", that is shown by 
> email-clients. When using clients like thunderbird or kmail everything 
> works fine. But some users still use Outlook as email-client. In 
> Outlook the received date is wrong. Outlook shows the date, when the 
> email is copied into the dbmail server (the value of "internal_date" 
> in table messages). I tried the same thing with an another IMAP-Server 
> (Cyrus) and there it works with the "original" receive date of the 
> email.
>
> Is this a problem of Outlook, or why does dbmail sends this date to 
> the client? Perhaps you have an idea how to solve this. It is not very 
> nice to have 5000 mails with the same date in one folder. :-)
>
> Greetings,
> Ronny
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