Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!mtgzx.att.com!jis From: jis@mtgzx.att.com (J Mukerji) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: eatmail and AMS (messages) gripe Message-ID: Date: 21 Aug 90 20:45:01 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 In the process of putting together a shell script for converting PCS mailboxes into AMS folders I came across what appears to be an annoying aspect of messages. I followed Nathaniel's instructions, and everything worked fine until the last step, which involves "reconstructing" the newly created folder. While reconstructing the folder one is prompted as follows: CUI> How do you want to sort the reconstructed folder 1 - By time stamp on the raw files 2 - By parsing the 'Date' header (slower; sets time stamps) Choose one [1 - By time stamp on the raw files]: I selected 2 hoping that I would get the timestamps set right on the files so that the right sending times would be reflected in the captions when the folder is viewed in messages. Unfortunately, that is not to be. Although the messages get sorted correctly, the timestamps do get set, but in the captions messages displays the time at which the message was moved from PCS form to the AMS folder. Now this time is seems to be less important for the user than the time at which the message was originally sent. So I am left wondering how I can get messages to display the timestamp as set by cui in the captions instead of this other time. Is there a preference that I can set or something like that? Or is it going to need changes in the source code? Where does messages get the time that it displays in the captions from? Thanks. Jishnu Mukerji, jis@mtgzx.att.com, +1 201 957 5986, AT&T Bell Laboratories, MT 3K-423, 200 Laurel Ave., Middletown NJ 07748 ... [An Andrew ToolKit view (an animated drawing) was included here, but could not be displayed.]