Re: Import-Problem

Hi Alex,

On Aug 03, 2004, at 21:04, [email protected] wrote:

> Date: Fri, Dec 12 1997 13:12:58 +0000

This doesn't look like a properly formated RFC822 date... try to 
inverse the month and day information:

Fri, 12 Dec 1997 13:12:58 +0000

Note that 'day' is before 'month'.

> That's a header of a mail that was filed under the wrong date.

Yep... those dates are not properly formatted. Check "3.3. Date and 
Time Specification" in RFC 2822 for the formal syntax:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html

In a nutshell, the date part is defined as "day month year". Your 
headers are formatted as "month day year"... not going to work :)

> I might have to add that many of these wrongly filed mails were in a 
> format that mail.app (or eudora or any other programm) could not not 
> import, so I did a lot of grep search-and-replace to change them into 
> a format that finally worked for mail.app (but apparently not for 
> zoe).

Time for more "grep'ing" :)

Cheers,

R.



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