Hello,

this is a forwarded bug from http://bugs.debian.org/507431

example email:

Return-path: <x@x.e>
Envelope-to: y@y.e
Delivery-date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:53:06 +0000
Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by mail.y.e with smtp
        (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <x@x.e>) id 1L73ac-0006JR-1S for
        y@y.e; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:53:06 +0000
Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Dec 2008 07:42:27 -0000
Received: from collect02.o2online.de (EHLO SGBMCAPP03) [82.113.101.26]
by
        mail.gmx.net (mp039) with SMTP; 01 Dec 2008 08:42:27 +0100
X-Authenticated: #28825183
X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+IH8IA3nqIu7eAFCVs3adIxw7oAvQp2c9Mn+YOBz
        ypD8WuWB5LAUnS
From: "X X" <x@x.e>
To: <y@y.e>
Reply-To: <x@x.e>
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?AW:_Re:_Subject?=
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: O3SIS o2 Communication Center Mail 6.00.00 2003-09-04 Cologne
        Edition
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0
X-FuHaFi: 0.6
X-Evolution-Source: imap://y@mail.y.e/
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:16:45 +0100

AFAIK the sender is not rfc compliant because the Date: was missing (chronological it should be before the Received: timestamps). The recieving MTA is exim and adds the Delivery-date: when Date: is missing.
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.feedback.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/660e4120fdd46064/5a8ee00b236f52b0

Evolution adds the X-Evolution-Source: and because Date: is added after that I think evolution adds the Date: when its missing in the header. Can you confirm that evolution is doing this?

The problem is, that evolution still displays "?" as date even with the later added Date: line.

So the bug is that evolution adds Date: but don't display it.


in short:

- when a sender is not rfc-compliant and don't add a Date: line
- we guess evolution adds the missing Date: line
- but doing this wrong because after the addition to the header its
still not shown in evolution

thx for your comments on this.