Subject: Date stamp

From: "MAS Inc." <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:52:58 -0700

The problem in a nutshell: when I look at a folder index, some messages
have bad dates, something like this:

	+    9 xxx -1 Joe Blow     (711) Re: can't parse the date

What I know at this point: the reason pine can't parse the date out of the
message is (or seems to be) that there is no "Date:" line in the message.
In other messages there is a line something like:

	Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:20:08 -0700 (PDT)

but not in the messages that pine can't parse.  Also, all these messages
come from PC's hooked to our Unix box with TCP/IP.  (They use Pronto
mail.  Sorry.)

Am I right that it's the mail server's responsibility to date and time
stamp a message?  If so, why is our mail server not stamping the mail from
our PC's?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I can also be reached at [email-masked].

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From: [email-masked] (Rob Funk)
Date: 22 Jul 1996 23:13:39 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>stamp a message?  If so, why is our mail server not stamping the mail from

It's the sending program's responsibility -- the mail server doesn't
know when the message was originally sent, only when it received the
message.  But I think the mail server should add it if there isn't one
already.  (I think Sendmail usually does.)

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