jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) (06/09/89)
Background: GNU Emacs 18.54 on HP9000/320 with HP-UX 6.2.
When a mail message is saved with RMAIL C-o (save message in Unix mail
format), a new "From " header is generated which does not match the
original "From " header. Most notably, the timestamp is set to the
current time.
I think the timestamp should be derieved from the "Date:" header, if
present.
Johan
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In article <3239@mhres.mh.nl>, jv@mhres (Johan Vromans) writes:
]When a mail message is saved with RMAIL C-o (save message in Unix mail
]format), a new "From " header is generated which does not match the
]original "From " header. Most notably, the timestamp is set to the
]current time.
]
]I think the timestamp should be derieved from the "Date:" header, if
]present.
Parsing the date to get a good "From " header is really painful, since
if it's not quite right mail will be unhappy. I decided in the
interest of simplicity to have it use the current time, which is known
to be in the right format. I didn't think that too many people cared
about the From time; and at least sometimes the From time was set to
the delivery time (since the "From " header doesn't get sent across
internet mail, but is something added locally).
Based on all this, I decided that C-o was better off using the current
time (which is a delivery time in a manner of speaking).
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