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Re: Another User Requirement Consider: Dates

2004-02-07 23:07:45

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:56, Hector Santos wrote:
- Users would like to know when the message was received by the MUA
relative to the user, not the relative date received by the mail server.

What this might mean is the mail-ng mail pickup logic may need to add
another Received line indicating when it was picked up by the MUA or the

Presumably the MUA itself could make a note of when it picked up the mail, 
without intervention by any other part of the system. Some current MUAs do 
exactly this, allowing the message list to be ordered by the timestamp at 
which the message was added to the local mailstore.

I don't see that this places any requirements on the mail protocol or message 
format.

Regards,
TFBW


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