From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mail-mode does not insert a date header Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:01:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83siqpop2d.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394478141 4339 80.91.229.3 (10 Mar 2014 19:02:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:02:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 10 20:02:29 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WN5T3-0001pD-Hk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:02:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50663 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WN5T3-0002zn-6g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:02:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55117) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WN5Sn-0002xs-7i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:02:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WN5Sh-0000Ic-3e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:02:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:34343) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WN5Sg-0000HY-MP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:02:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N2800L00HVT3T00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:02:00 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N2800K6MI7BUT60@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:02:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96404 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:24:41 -0400 > From: florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) > > A number of people have brought to my attention that my messages do > not contain a "Date:" header. (As should be the case with this very > message.) I can confirm this when I send messages to myself, and a > check of my outbox confirms that this started in August 2012. I have > no idea why. > > I could of course use (mail-rfc822-date) to set the Date header in > mail-default-headers, but my feeling is that this is not how it is > done (and certainly not how it worked on my system until summer > 2012). Also, this would have the problem of setting the date when I > start writing the message, not when I send it. (And sometimes, I store > drafts for quite a while.) > > Can anybody tell me what I must be blatantly overlooking? Thank you so > much! Isn't the Date header inserted by the MTA, as opposed by the MUA? When I compose mail, I don't see that header in the *mail* buffer, and yet it magically appears on my mails when I look at them in the forums where I post.