Re: message date in index list

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On September 3, 2003 at 21:23, Vicki Brown wrote:

> >There are three resource variables for getting the date of a message.
> >$DATE$ gets you the complete date specification as is present in
> >the mail message.  If you want to control the formatting of the
> >date, use $MSGLOCALDATE$ or $MSGGMTDATE$.
> 
> I can understand that, but I expected $DATE$ to give me the date, i.e.
>     Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:48:08 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> I don't understand what
>    (envelope-from
> 
> sentto-4475670-16412-1062625167-colecoon-l=heatercats.org@returns.groups.yaho
> o.com)
> has to do with the _date_?

Check the raw mail message.  I would bet that all that extra stuff
is in the message, and technically, anything in ()'s is a comment
(RFC 822).  By default, mhonarc extracts the date from the Received
header field, but you can control that via the DATEFIELDS resource
(see the Examples sections of the DATEFIELDS resource page for the
reason Received is used by default).

--ewh

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