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Re: Comments on draft-homme-sieve-variables-01.txt

2003-04-18 20:58:06

Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho(_at_)ifi(_dot_)uio(_dot_)no> writes:
[Simon Josefsson]:

  Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho(_at_)ifi(_dot_)uio(_dot_)no> writes:
  
  > the date itself should be no more than a few minutes earlier
  > than current time.  if it isn't, there is a misconfiguration or
  > an outage going on.
  
  The time in Date: are in general not the same as delivery time.
  Differences of several hours and days are typical.

you should get a better email provider :-)

Not at all.  His provider has no control over the Date: header field as,
for the vast majority of messages, that header field was added by either
the sender's MUA or the MSA.  Desktop machines are often unsynchronized
and may have never been given the correct date, much less time.


Philip Guenther
<guenther(_at_)sendmail(_dot_)com>