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Stefa...@t-online.de

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Apr 13, 2000, 9:04:26 AM4/13/00

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Hi,

> Stefan, do you have _any_ idea why do your messages seem to
> be dated by Jan 1, 1970?

The usual debugging problem: More information needed ;-)

Does it always happen or only for some of my mails? If it's only for some,
the ancient OS/2 mail client (dated June '96) I'm using might not be
Y2K compliant. However, the copy that I get from the mailing list has
today's date and the correct time - and so has the copy in the mailing list
archive, so I rather think it must be something else. :-o

If it does happen to all of my mails (quite a few of them are written
through a web-based mail interface of my provider), it's possibly
caused by T-Online using a date header format that your mail reader
doesn't understand (which would mean I can't do anything about it, they
just rewrite the headers, no way to avoid it :-( ).

Anyway, if it's the former, I can install pine and we'll see what
happens to this problem (something for the weekend...).

BTW, accessing the mailing list archive via a dialup connection seems
rather painful to me. Perhaps we could have them sorted in reverse order
(i.e. newest first), so we don't have to download the list of all mails
of this month to get to the current ones? Robin?

Regards,
Stefan

Roger Gammans

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Apr 13, 2000, 10:02:55 AM4/13/00

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On Wed, May 21, 2036 at 02:09:17AM +0000, Stefa...@t-online.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Stefan, do you have _any_ idea why do your messages seem to
> > be dated by Jan 1, 1970?
>
> The usual debugging problem: More information needed ;-)
>
> Does it always happen or only for some of my mails? If it's only for some,
> the ancient OS/2 mail client (dated June '96) I'm using might not be

For me only some of them like the one this replies to.
I just get the wrong date, because of a Y2k problem this end
with 2-digit years.

There is a later version of my mailer but that seems to break other
things on Debian. (With NFS mounted home directories anyway).

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Robin Dunn

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Apr 13, 2000, 10:01:04 AM4/13/00

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> BTW, accessing the mailing list archive via a dialup connection seems
> rather painful to me. Perhaps we could have them sorted in reverse order
> (i.e. newest first), so we don't have to download the list of all mails
> of this month to get to the current ones? Robin?
>

There are only a couple configuration options for the archive and sort order
is not one of them... I'll poke around a bit and see if I can find anything
else.

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Tom Ryan

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Apr 18, 2000, 8:27:09 AM4/18/00

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Hi Stefan,

On 13 Apr 00, at 19:41, Stefa...@t-online.de wrote:
> Does it always happen or only for some of my mails? If it's only for
> some, the ancient OS/2 mail client (dated June '96) I'm using might
> not be Y2K compliant.

When the wxO2 port is complete, you should be able to use
Mahogany (http://www.wxwindows.org/Mahogany) as your email
client for OS/2. ;)

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