235624 - emails without Date: header are given Dec 31, 1969 4pm date

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 73565

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Miles Libbey]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (20040207)

When receiving an email that does not have a Date header (for instance
mozdev.org mailing list digests), the email is given a Dec 31, 1969 4pm date.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send self an email without a Date: header (direct to mx email, with header
part of data section without Date)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Date is set to Dec 31, 1969 4pm

Expected Results:  
When email does not have a Date: header, use Date from top most Received header.

Comment 1

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

A quicksearch in Bugzilla for 1969 (for a different bug) also returned bug
73565, which makes this bug a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73565 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

V/dupe.