1423462 - Date shows when email message was created, not when the email message was sent

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Óvári]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171130143349

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create an email message and select the Send Later option.

2. The email message is stored in Local Folders → Outbox.

3. Right click on Outbox and select "Send Unsent Messages".

4. The email message is stored in the Sent (or equivalent) folder.


Actual results:

For the email message in the Sent (or equivalent) folder, the 'Date' column shows the date and time the message was created.


Expected results:

For the email message in the Sent (or equivalent) folder, should the 'Date' column show the date and time the message was sent?

Thank you

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Yes, the Date header in the message gets set when the message is stored in the Outbox, not when it's sent.

I don't think that we will action that.

Comment 2

[Óvári]

(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+1) from comment #1)
> Yes, the Date header in the message gets set when the message is stored in
> the Outbox, not when it's sent.
> 
> I don't think that we will action that.

Would this mean the sender and recipient would have a different date for an email?

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

No. The date for both comes from the Date: header. However, the recipient can also show the "Received" column which shows any delay in delivery, including the time the message has spent in the sender's Outbox.

Comment 4

[Óvári]

(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+1) from comment #3)
The "Received" and "Date" columns in Thunderbird both show the date the email was created, not sent. Is there a column which shows the date the email was sent/received? Or is this a bug? Thank you

Comment 6

[chrizilla]

dd

Comment 7

[chrizilla]

(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+2) from comment #3)
> No. The date for both comes from the Date: header. However, the recipient
> can also show the "Received" column which shows any delay in delivery,
> including the time the message has spent in the sender's Outbox.

(In reply to Óvári from comment #4)
> (In reply to Jorg K (GMT+1) from comment #3)
> The "Received" and "Date" columns in Thunderbird both show the date the
> email was created, not sent. Is there a column which shows the date the
> email was sent/received? Or is this a bug? Thank you

I think there is a misunderstanding.
Óvári talks about sent emails. They seem to have the same sent/received date.
Jorg K refers to received emails. They can have different sent/received dates.

Comment 8

[Óvári]

Would you please change the status from WONTFIX to NEW. Thank you

Comment 9

[chrizilla]

(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+2) from comment #1)
> the Date header in the message gets set when the message is stored in
> the Outbox, not when it's sent. I don't think that we will action that.

Why do we store the last-edit-time in the date header, rather than the sent-time?
Isn't it much more important to know, when the email was actually *SENT* ?