270176 - Date/Time is displayed incorrectly for e-mails without a date header

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 266434

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Benny Raymond]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: version 0.9 (20041103)

If a mail is recieved without a date header, Thunderbird displays it's date as
the time this e-mail was downloaded - this is obviously incorrect, and there are
much better ways of determining the time. (by using the Received: header for
instance).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send yourself an e-mail from a source, do not set the date header (easiest
would be to use a perl program and make sure the date header doesn't get set)
2. Wait a while
3. Check your e-mail and note the time that thunderbird displays (if you wait
over 24 hours durring step 2 it's more evident).

Actual Results:  
The time displayed for the e-mail is the time which thunderbird grabbed it from
the server.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should use the time from the Recieved: header - it can either use
just the first one, or an average of all of them.  Perhaps this can even be an
option - IMO it should never default to the time thunderbird downloaded it from
the server though.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 266434 ***