On November 4, 1999 at 16:04, Nathaniel Irons wrote:
So Joe User turns the clock back a year on his PC, to get around an
expiration date on some software package he wants to use, and forgets to
reset the clock when he's done. Then he sends your mailing list a
message, timestamped as it leaves his pop client with some goofy date.
Your script, as written, will dutifully extract the date header, parse
it, and spool to the wrong directory, because you relied on bad data.
This is a reason why MHonArc (by default) keys off the Received header
for the date of the message. Pre-processing scripts may want
to the same.
--ewh
