1751579 - Message list "received" and "date" columns values are the same. "received" the value is probably correct. "date" value expressing the sending

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[JA]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0

Steps to reproduce:

In the message list, the "received" and "date" columns are displayed, and the values appear the same in both columns. In the column "received" the value is probably correct, in the column "date" there should be a value expressing the sending

Comment 1

[Jonathan Johnson]

What I have found is that the "Date" column accurately reflects the date and time the message was sent, but the "Received" column also displays the date and time the message was sent rather than the date and time of the most recent "Received" header.

I'm fairly certain previous versions listed this correctly, but I'm not positive, and at this time I can't say what version the behavior changed.

I believe this bug is miscategorized. It should be considered a defect, not an enhancement request.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Johnson]

(In reply to Jonathan Johnson from comment #1)

What I have found is that the "Date" column accurately reflects the date and time the message was sent, but the "Received" column also displays the date and time the message was sent rather than the date and time of the most recent "Received" header.

I'm fairly certain previous versions listed this correctly, but I'm not positive, and at this time I can't say what version the behavior changed.

I believe this bug is miscategorized. It should be considered a defect, not an enhancement request.

Observed in version 91.8.0

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

sfhowes has noted some information in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1158818

Perhaps this is a duplicate of bug 402594? (from the bug query https://mzl.la/3KNWvYQ )

Comment 5

[mozilla]

This problem still exists in version 128.7.1esr. I received a message on February 27, 2025, 4:22 PM pacific time. It showed as being received at that date and time with the Android mail app and by the webmail page connected directly to my email server. However, I did not see the message in my Thunderbird Inbox. I finally found it with the email that arrived four days earlier, with the received date and time February 23, 2025 3:05 PM. Opening both the Date and Received column headers, the dates and times shown were the same. I will include the relevant email headers below, with two actual email addresses changed for privacy. As shown, the value in both the Date and Received Thunderbird columns was from the "Date:" header, with the time value shown by the other email programs coming from the "Received:" header, which reflected when the message actually arrived.

I don't know why the dates in the message differed by four days, obviously not a Thunderbird problem. However, Thunderbird should reflect the accurate receive date and time and should comply with other email programs.

X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Received: from ms11p00im-qufo17292001.me.com (ms11p00im-qufo17292001.me.com [17.58.38.49])
(using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)
key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256)
(No client certificate requested)
by mta.mail1.g10.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A55B5BD916
for <name@email address>; Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:22:41 -0700 (MST)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=icloud.com;
s=1a1hai; bh=LVvqFavtq3YWkzCcHkC5UyN1v38Qa2xre3QAJcVXXUo=;
h=From:Content-Type:Mime-Version:Date:Subject:Message-Id:To:x-icloud-hme;
b=0wwJOxSO3ZsqgQLiKhpoPiXy1YkLxw939KR1DrXmCIJmrj5FAZtKXTo5lztarIFdj
bK80RhYwfRa6J/H36Q8bQ1tVpWSxKD/dH1qcjnAD5oqp4OiaBHYHbtRZEaFw+mDGAP
BmhPDxVUwsWs0B4pT3bM8+BlVU4MCTcvTLz+gM4hsR9BGqHdUMpraBtQzHa88FNLlX
AMDUZSnvoP/enzUEWIdElM+BPNa7KAgz3/BEXJRCC6U6Tx/c2X5f81N6j52hUCAA8k
Y4AhHh33PCFfNFVKswErJAQokOO632prmrmIu/aCFmq7ix62mzEs/rIf58VoHtpaMr
0fqNJun3VoUQw==
Received: from smtpclient.apple (ms11p00im-dlb-asmtpmailmevip.me.com [17.57.154.19])
by ms11p00im-qufo17292001.me.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C6E69A60244;
Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:22:34 +0000 (UTC)
From: name <email address>
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="Apple-Mail=_F1E6523D-C495-4D15-8A2E-6DD9E98EE794"
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 (3774.300.61.1.2))
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:05:22 -0800

Comment 6

[Halacs]

I also have problem with "Received" and "Date" column version 146.0.1 (64bit) version of Thunderbird.

I received an email this evening. I saw it in my inbox, deleted it, then in some reason I wanted to check it again in the Trash folder. In the Trash folder, I noticed that ordering is wrong. I noticed that "Received" and "Date" columns show the same values. I checked the raw email and confirmed that both columns show the value of "Date" header of the email, which is correct for "Date" column but for "Received".

Can you pleas check this?

Comment 7

[sfhowes]

The Received column can be made to display the correct value by changing a preference:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1429014

Comment 8

[Halacs]

Hi, if you mean add "Received" keyword as an extra space separated value to "mailnews.customDBHeaders" preference in Advanced Preferences then it doesn't help even after using "Repair folder" button. So far, only workaround I found is to use "Order Received" column instead of "Received".