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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 41102@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41102: When messages have no Date:
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:16:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1sl9wc4.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878si6c6f4.5.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Wed, 06 May 2020 07:23:43 +0800")

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> Got an idea: if a mail arrives without a Date: header, gnus should add a
> X-Gnus-Artificial-Date: <now> header.
>
> And when opening such messages, if no Date: is found, use the
> X-Gnus-Artificial-Date: header when making dates for the *Summary*
> buffer.
>
> That way instead of 1970 dates, you'll have dates certainly just a day
> or two from the real date (when they sent the mail, that we don't know.)

I don't think we should pretend -- when we don't know what the sent date
is, then giving an errorish date (1970, aka year zero) is the best, I
think.

So I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-05 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-05 23:23 bug#41102: When messages have no Date: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-05-06 11:36 ` bug#41102: just like totally-fudged-out-message-id 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-05-06 11:43 ` bug#41102: Add a X-Gnus-Note 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-05-06 12:03 ` bug#41102: Mutt 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-08-05 11:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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