Zero epoch-date

[Martin Hepworth]

Hi

the From - header is bust

Looking at the -H file there's no Date: there either so Thunderbird is
displaying the information correctly.

An example of what should be in the header file from by 4.43 (must
upgrade to 4.50)

038  Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:24:39 -0100


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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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Wechsler wrote:
> Since I've switched over to exim4 and Mailscanner, I'm getting one
> particular list mail that gets its date 'zeroed' (actually I think it's
> completely missing, but Thunderbird displays it as 1/1/70). Now this
> could well be an exim4 issue (when I was running Exim3 and no
> MailScanner, a date was appearing from 'somewhere').
>
> Obviously, zeroed dates don't help with sorting mail, so can anyone
> suggest which step of the chain is causing the problem?
> (I'm suspecting it may be the message sender failing to provide a date,
> but, as noted, something must have been filling them in in the past).
>
> If it's not a Mailscanner issue, my apologies for raising it here.
>
> Headers are:
>
>  From - Tue Mar  1 09:07:22 2005
> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
> X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
> Return-path: <vacancies at theitjobboard.com>
> Envelope-to: richard at phase.org
> Delivery-date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:56:35 +0000
> Received: from gate09.smwebhost.com ([62.189.242.169]
> helo=smgs-me-1.s3ms.com)
>        by heifong.phase.org with smtp (Exim 4.44)
>        id 1D5vge-0007P6-Av
>        for richard at phase.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:56:32 +0000
> From: TheUNIXJobBoard.com <vacancies at theunixjobboard.com>
> To: <richard at phase.org>
> Subject: LONDON + PHP/APACHE ...Jobs from the Unix Job Board
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> X-PhaseOrg-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> X-PhaseOrg-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-90.908,
>        required 6, CLICK_BELOW 1.52, CLICK_HERE_LINK 1.79,
>        DATE_MISSING 0.25, HTML_40_50 0.47, HTML_LINK_CLICK_HERE 0.10,
>        HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, MAILTO_LINK 0.04, MIME_BASE64_TEXT 1.10,
>        MIME_HTML_NO_CHARSET 0.72, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.10, RCVD_IN_ORBS 1.00,
>        RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 2.00, USER_IN_WHITELIST -100.00)
> X-MailScanner-From: vacancies at theitjobboard.com
> Status: O
> X-UID: 52296
> Content-Length: 23896
> X-Keywords:
>
> And in the 'safety' archive:
>
> heifong:/var/spool/MailScanner/archive/20050301# cat 1D5vge-0007P6-Av-H
> 1D5vge-0007P6-Av-H
> root 0 0
> <vacancies at theitjobboard.com>
> 1109638592 0
> -helo_name smgs-me-1.s3ms.com
> -host_address 62.189.242.169.4156
> -host_name gate09.smwebhost.com
> -interface_address 80.68.88.241.25
> -received_protocol smtp
> -body_linecount 314
> -deliver_firsttime
> XX
> 1
> richard at phase.org
>
> 200P Received: from gate09.smwebhost.com ([62.189.242.169]
> helo=smgs-me-1.s3ms.com)
>         by heifong.phase.org with smtp (Exim 4.44)
>         id 1D5vge-0007P6-Av
>         for richard at phase.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:56:32 +0000
> 058F From: TheUNIXJobBoard.com <vacancies at theunixjobboard.com>
> 028T To:     <richard at phase.org>
> 061  Subject: LONDON + PHP/APACHE ...Jobs from the Unix Job Board
> 018  MIME-Version: 1.0
> 024  Content-Type: text/html
> 034  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
>
> Many thanks,
>        Richard
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