Bug 24258 - mailx should set date in recorded mail
Summary: mailx should set date in recorded mail
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mailx
Version: 7.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ivana Varekova
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-01-18 01:56 UTC by jwitford
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-12-08 13:40:25 UTC
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adds date to mail header when recording outgoing mail (1.21 KB, patch)
2001-01-18 01:58 UTC, jwitford
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Description jwitford 2001-01-18 01:56:59 UTC
When mailx has the "record" option set to record sent mail
the header date field is not being set.
Some mail clients, when accessing such a file via IMAP, need
to have the date field set in the header in order to accurately
determine the appropriate time (eg. Outlook Express, sorry).

I have a patch, but a bit of work would be needed to ensure
that it works on platform other than glibc-2.2.
The problem being the tm_gmtoff element of struct tm:
      glibc-2.2:    p->tm_gmtoff
      sun:          (p->tm_isdst > 0 && daylist) ? -altzone : -gtimezone
      aix:          timezone
Could, of course, have used strftime()but the %z is not supported
on sun ...

Comment 1 jwitford 2001-01-18 01:58:24 UTC
Created attachment 7768 [details]
adds date to mail header when recording outgoing mail

Comment 2 Ivana Varekova 2004-11-08 15:41:17 UTC
ping?

Comment 3 Ivana Varekova 2004-12-08 13:40:25 UTC
It is not necessary to fill the header Date. In the header there is
the date written in From.
Ivana Varekova



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