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From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: Bug in RMAIL save
Message-ID: <22011@news.Think.COM>
Date: 9 Jun 89 20:32:05 GMT
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In-reply-to: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)

In article <3239@mhres.mh.nl>, jv@mhres (Johan Vromans) writes:
]When a mail message is saved with RMAIL C-o (save message in Unix mail
]format), a new "From " header is generated which does not match the
]original "From " header. Most notably, the timestamp is set to the
]current time.
]
]I think the timestamp should be derieved from the "Date:" header, if
]present.

Parsing the date to get a good "From " header is really painful, since
if it's not quite right mail will be unhappy.  I decided in the
interest of simplicity to have it use the current time, which is known
to be in the right format.  I didn't think that too many people cared
about the From  time; and at least sometimes the From  time was set to
the delivery time (since the "From " header doesn't get sent across
internet mail, but is something added locally).

Based on all this, I decided that C-o was better off using the current
time (which is a delivery time in a manner of speaking).
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