1820350 - Incorrect "Received" column on mail; Showing the "Date" header data instead

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 402594

(MailNews Core :: General, defect)

Description

[JoshuaSchoemmell]

Attachment: Message Source

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.3 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

Set the date on a Windows machine to a day before the current day.
Send an email from the Windows machine to another email account.
Check for the email in Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.
Observe the "Date" and "Received" columns.

Actual results:

The "Received" column shows the same date/time as the "Date" column, which is incorrect and could be very different from the actual date/time the email was received by the recipient.

Example:
Email's "Received" header shows "Received: by ... with SMTP id ...;
Sat, 4 Mar 2023 09:06:47 -0800 (PST)" (The current and actual date/time)
"Date" header shows "Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 13:57:20 -0800" (Date/Time reported by the sending client, which has been manually set)
However, both Date and Received columns show 3/3/23, 15:57 (for me in CST)

Expected results:

Received should show the correct Date/Time the email was actually received from the Received header. In the example provided it should show "3/4/23, 11:06" (CST).

Comment 1

[JoshuaSchoemmell]

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Comment 2

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

Are you using an IMAP account?

Version: Thunderbird 112

Do you think the bug is new?
Or isn't that an old friend: Bug 402594?

Comment 3

[JoshuaSchoemmell]

(In reply to Alfred Peters from comment #2)

Are you using an IMAP account?

Version: Thunderbird 112

Do you think the bug is new?
Or isn't that an old friend: Bug 402594?

It does indeed appear to be the old friend: Bug 402594

I followed the workaround recommended here: https://blog.kamens.us/send-later/

• Open the Thunderbird Preferences.
• Click on “Config Editor…” in the Advanced section of the General preferences.
• Enter “mailnews.customDBHeaders” (without the quotes) into the search box.
• If it’s not there, right-click in the search results area, select New > String, enter “mailnews.customDBHeaders” (without the quotes) as the preference name to create and click OK, and enter “Received” (without the quotes) as the value and click OK again.
• If, on the other hand, “mailnews.customDBHeaders” shows up in the search results, then double-click on it to edit the value, enter a space and then “Received” (without the quotes) at the end of the value, and click OK.

And then after it restarts the Received column functions as expected.

I guess I'm a little puzzled why this hasn't been implemented as a fix yet... 🤔