Re: Date Conundrum

On Thursday 03 December 2009, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Thu, December 3, 2009 2:54 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > The plot thickens!  I just got another offer from the same company,
> > and on the message list it showed 1st January 1970, so I clicked on
> > it, before opening
> > full headers - and the date immediately changed to today's date!  I
> > do seem to
> > have seen some odd things in kde-pim, just recently :-)  Anyway, I
> > checked the
> > header, and can't see anything strange there.  The date of sending
> > appears to be Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:00:58 +0000, so I can't
> > imagine why that display problem occurred.  FWIW, this is Kontact
> > 4.3.3 with KMail 1.12.3
>
> I've seen possibly related behaviour from time to time on an Ubuntu
> system. A couple of dozen messages will for no obvious reason show
> unknown date, and most of them (but usually not all) will refresh the
> date correctly when they are clicked on in the message list. I get
> the impression, without any evidence, that it may be an indexing
> problem.

If this happens with IMAP then the following might explain this 
behavior. The information in the message list is generated from the 
message envelope we get from the IMAP server. When you click on a 
message then KMail downloads the message (obviously) and parses the 
header of the message to extract the same information. In some cases 
the information in the envelope (which is created by the IMAP server by 
parsing the message) is not identical with the information KMail 
extracts by parsing the message.

The above Date: header doesn't look weird in any way, so it shouldn't 
trigger the above behavior.


Regards,
Ingo

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