Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Preservation of posting date with smail2.5 and older-style headers Message-ID: <8995@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 20 Apr 88 20:53:36 GMT References: <305@zinn.MV.COM> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 17 Keywords: smail date This is a good point and would remove some of the guesswork involved in figuring out what went wrong if/when mail goes awry What I'd suggest to turn the From_'s and >From_'s into "Comment: From_" lines (insert "Comment:" in front of the existing line. Possibly also with the local host name as part of the comment line?). THEN you use the date from the last >From_ line to fill in missing Date: fields. The real problem with this is that is more work than most rmail writers want to devote :-) -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- "... So I walked into the bakery and asked the lady <---- if she had a bun in the oven ..."