ipurge to use -d as receive date and not sent date

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Carsten Hoeger wrote:

> I recently sat down over a customer bug report and found out, that ipurge uses
> the sent date (which is what is in the Date: Header of a mail or the offset
> OFFSET_SENTDATE) to determine the age of a single message. The problem with
> that is, that there's an increasing amount of messages (sort SPAM) with dates
> in the far future and therefor these mails won't get deleted using ipurge.
>
> A short look at the source made me try to use OFFSET_INTERNALDATE (from
> imap/mailbox.h), which seems to do what I want, deleting mails which had been
> received n days ago.
>
> Is that assumption right, or do I have to reckon some strange side effects?

This will probably do what you want.

If a patch was supplied to make this be handled by a command-line option,
we'd probably take it (it shouldn't be that much work).

-Rob

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