On 2021-11-22 at 16:01 +0000, Peter Wurmsdobler wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> > there are two columns, one is referring the 'Date' header, another is
> > referring the 'Received' header. The 'Received' header is usually not
> > part of the Sent messages.
> Just added the Received header, and for some reason for few dozen
> messages there is a large discrepency between the Date and the Received
> time stamps, perhaps due to the `mb2md` conversion.

Note that sometimes the reported Date: header doesn't match the
Received: one.

* The sender may have its clock wrong
* A mail server may have its clock wrong
* The email may have been awaiting for some time on some MTA
(graylisting, server was down, routing problems…)
* Spam mails are sometimes purposefully backdated (so )of future-dated
in an attempt to make them appear at the top of the inbox

Best regards


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