Fwd: date received

[Jon Rowell]

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> From: Jon Rowell <jrowell at ecunet.org>
> Date: Sat Mar 1, 2003  2:31:24 AM US/Central
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: date received
>
> I am working on converting from unix mail spools to cyrus.  I have 
> pretty much everything working except for after I get things converted 
> and startup cyrus and people download the messages to their client the 
> "Date Received" (that's what my mac email client calls it... outlook 
> express calls it "Received") for every message is set to the time that 
> the message was converted to cyrus format.  Is it possible to change 
> this value to either the Date: header of the message or the date/time 
> mentioned in the Received: header?  Anything is better than 3am on 
> whatever date I ran my conversion program.
>
> Some notes on how I'm doing my conversion.  I am using more or less 
> the same process that is described in the O'Reilly "Managing Imap" 
> book which creates all of the mailboxes for you, splits each spool up 
> using formail, copies into individual files for cyrus and then when 
> we're all done runs "reconstruct -r".  I would expect reconstruct to 
> reset this date received for me but it doesn't.
>
> Anybody know anything about this?  I haven't run across this issue 
> anywhere on the web.   Is everyone simply happy getting the message 
> there with the wrong date received?
>
> Also, as a related issue, anybody know how I can use php to receive 
> the date received value for a given message?  Also, what raw command 
> is given to the imap server in order to retrieve this information?
>
> Jon Rowell
>