[kdepim-users] Date Conundrum

[David Jarvie]

On Thursday 03 Dec 2009 19:09:36 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> 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.

I saw it with POP3.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdepim-users/attachments/20091203/5a71ab28/attachment.sig>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
KDE PIM users mailing list
kdepim-users at kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users