Jeremy --
...and then Jeremy M. Dolan said...
%
% What I would like to have is:
% * All message Date: headers displayed in local machine time (C[DS]T)
% * Date part of message index displayed in local machine time
% * Messages sorted by theyre local dates, no more priority given to
% aussies and such =)
Well, the third item says that you don't really want to sort by date
anymore, because 2100 CT is *still* already tomorrow in Oz. Right?
If you accept the remote Date: header to convert it to your local time,
then it could be today or tomorrow or 1900 or February, and nothing will
change that. You can't take care of someone else's clock, no matter
how much we all may try :-)
Do you just want to sort on order received? That's a lot easier than
rewriting the Date: header based on the [latest] Received: header...
In fact, what you could do, if you were infernally clever, is write a
script that would parse the Received: headers, going back in time (down
the headers) and changing any times that were wrong -- assuming that
you can figure out the difference between an abnormally long mail hop
delay and a true clock error, and that your clock is always really right
(or maybe you jump down to the 2nd Received: line, which is written by
whatever gave the mail to your machine, and assume that *it* is right :-)
Then you run the script with procmail, muck up all of the headers in
your messages, and happily know that the dates are now right.
Come to think of it, you didn't get this from me ;-)
%
% Can mutt do this?
Given the right tool from the rest of the OS, there's nothing it can't do
if you can program it ;-)
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% Jeremy M. Dolan
% Systems Administrator
% AxisTangent & Technologies
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