[NTLUG:Discuss] im getting the digest with weird dates

[Jack Snodgrass]

Looks like the mailer that NTLUG uses doesn't add a 
Date: header to it's email. 

I took the headers, put them in an email and sent it to myself
and my mail server ( postfix ) added the missing Date: header to 
the email. 

So... it looks like a combination of 1), the ntlug mailer doesn't
add a Date: header and 2) your mail server doesn't add the date 
if it is missing... something like that. I'm pretty sure that 
sendmail, postfix, and qmail all add a Date: header if one isn't 
given by the client. 

jack 


On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 13:43, twig at tx2600.com wrote:
> here is the full header of one.
> 
> Return-path: <discuss-bounces at ntlug.org>
> Envelope-to: twig at tx2600.com
> Delivery-date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:00:20 -0500
> Received: from [216.234.235.154] (helo=ntlug-2001.ntlug.org)
>      by server.blogcentral.com with esmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128)
>      (Exim 4.34)
>      id 1BjLD2-0004RM-7r
>      for twig at tx2600.com; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:00:20 -0500
> Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=ntlug-2001.ntlug.org)
>      by ntlug-2001.ntlug.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30)
>      id 1BjLCq-0001xo-3h; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:00:08 -0500
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============23252321113294294=="
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> From: discuss-request at ntlug.org
> Subject: Discuss Digest, Vol 19, Issue 29
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> > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 13:27, twig at tx2600.com wrote:
> >> i have been getting the ntlug digest with the date Wed, December 31,
> >> 1969
> >> 6:00 pm for about 2 months now, and its only the ntlug and my ntop
> >> digests, i wonder why and how, any help on this?
> >> TwiG
> >
> > if no valid date: date-string is found in the email, a mailer
> > will put in the 1969 date.
> >
> > What headers does your email have... date: wise?
> >
> > jack
> >
> >
>