Closed Bug 1752131 Opened 4 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Use "x-apparently-to" date if date header is missing and no other date is available

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(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Thunderbird 91
defect

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

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(Reporter: positronthief, Unassigned)

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Steps to reproduce:

I opened my gmail in Thunderbird via imap, and some old emails from 2007 appeared at the top of the list with now() as the date/time.

I have included an email that can be opened to replicate.

Actual results:

This message appears with the current date/time in the email list

Expected results:

Gmail displays a date from 2007. Thunderbird should do the same.

The email contains an "x-apparently-to" header with the date/time that gmail displays, so I assume gmail is getting the date/time from this header.

Using thunderbird to copy these emails to another gmail account as part of a migration has caused them to show at the top in gmail also - so maybe gmail's use of that date isn't so straightforward.

Regardless, to work around it I'm going to write a script to set the Date header in the archived emails off this header for now, and it's the best I can come up with for thunderbird to fix it also.

Reporter, do you still see this issue when using version 102?

Whiteboard: [closeme 2022-10-15]

Resolved per whiteboard

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Whiteboard: [closeme 2022-10-15]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #2)

Reporter, do you still see this issue when using version 102?

Yes.

That said, it's exceedingly low priority, so I wasn't really expecting it to be fixed.

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