Why? Isn't it better to fix misbehaving clients server-side?

For example, some clients I have (OEM built-in clients) are for example putting 
the date 1970-01-01 on all outgoing emails (and also on incoming emails which 
lacks a Date: header) causing them to land at the bottom of the inbox view and 
then I miss the emails.
Or I sit there wondering where the lingering "unread" email is.

I fixed it simple with a simple ACL filter which replaces the Date: header on 
all incoming and outgoing emails with the Date: header having the current 
date/time of the server.

Problem solved!


Thats why its so nice with email servers having "scripting" or "filter" 
functionality, because you can usually fix misbehaving or glitchy or weird 
clients server-side so the experience becomes the same as a behaving client for 
the end-user.

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On 04 Apr 2021, at 06:39, André Rodier <an...@rodier.me> wrote:
> I continue to search on a simple solution, and I will come back to you!

Seems the best solution is to get a web client that properly puts messages into 
DRAFTS and not appends them to Sent, but I guess that is too much to hope for?

I'd certainly at least complain about this misbehavior.

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