[Hendrix] support for "Delivery-Date: " E-mail header
Robert M. Enger
Email: bulk3atengerdotus
Product: Thunderbird
Summary: support for "Delivery-Date: " E-mail header
Comments:
hi:
I found a few pieces of old E-mail that Thunderbird sorts as recent.
When I looked under the hood, I found that they did not contain any
RFC822 "Date: " header. (These messages are from Budget Rent-A-Car and
Atom Films, so they're not completely unheard-of entities.)
My mail server uses Exim. It automatically inserts an extra header
when it does not find an RFC-822 "Date: " header in the message.
The header it inserts is "Delivery-date: ".
I'm guessing that Microsloth Outlook supports this, because I never saw
these messages sorted as recent until I switched to Thunderbird.
So, my suggestion is that Thunderbird should add support for the Exim
extra headers (notably "Delivery-date: ". It might be worth while
doing a quick check of the other special headers added by other major,
main-stream MTAs/mail-store systems, and add support for those too.
That way, Thunderbird will represent a super-set of functionality of
all these mail systems, and always be better than MS Outlook.
Thank you for reviewing this suggestion.
Bob
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