On 2009-04-18_13:33:09, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Saturday, April 18 at 10:43 AM, quoth Paul E Condon: > > I had thought that I could edit into the email a Date: header with > > the correct date, > > Yup, that's the way to do it. > > Let me guess: you edited the message outside of mutt, and you use > header caching. When you relaunched mutt, it didn't think the message > had changed, since the filename was the same (which is an assumption > it makes about Maildir messages), so it simply used the cached value > of the Date header when rendering the index list. > > > but that doesn't seem to work, for me. I still get the Unix Epoch in > > the index display. I have editted in both Date: and Delivery-date: > > headers. I can see them when I open an email and visually read the > > headers. But I want that date to appear in the index as well. > > That date also gets stored in the header cache. > > > Where does Mutt get the date that it displays in 'index-format'? > > It gets it from the Date header. > > > What is the correct format for that date? > > It's the format specified in section 5 of RFC 822. > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt > > > What does Mutt do with emails for which it cannot parse the date? > > It uses the epoch. > > > Is there a secret database somewhere in which Mutt keeps what it > > thinks it the real date? Etc. Etc... > > Nope. But mutt can cache the date header (if you told it to).
OK, header cache is the mysterious something that was stopping me. How do I empty the header cache and force a reload from disk? Preferably without exiting Mutt, so that I can check my work as I go. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net
