287081 - negative or zero date created in import from OE6, then displays as far future

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 73565

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Jeff Greif]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

For a very tiny fraction of many thousand messages imported from OE6.0, the date
is set to 1965-01-01T00:00:00, and then displays in the messages-in-folder list
window of Thunderbird as 2101-02-06T06:28:00

These are the headers of a particular message (with actual addresses replaced)
illustrating the problem, as produced by OE6.0 (with latest patches).
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Delivered-To: me@myaddress
Received: (cpmta 4269 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2004 21:58:13 -0700
Received: from 66.218.66.188 (HELO n9.bulk.scd.yahoo.com)
  by smtp.c007.snv.cp.net (209.228.33.246) with SMTP; 24 Aug 2004 21:58:13 -0700
X-Received: 25 Aug 2004 04:58:13 GMT
Received: from [66.218.69.4] by n9.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Aug 2004
04:58:13 -0000
Received: from [66.163.172.59] by mailer4.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Aug
2004 04:58:13 -0000
From: Yahoo! News <[e-mail]>
To: me@myaddress, someoneelse@somewhereelse
Cc:
Reply-to: someone@somewhere
Subject: Yahoo! News Story - Ludicrous, Lethal Government Secrets Cited
Return-path: [e-mail]
Errors-To: [e-mail]

After import, Thunderbird reports these headers (viewing the message source):
From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Delivered-To: me@myaddress
Received: (cpmta 4269 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2004 21:58:13 -0700
Received: from 66.218.66.188 (HELO n9.bulk.scd.yahoo.com)
  by smtp.c007.snv.cp.net (209.228.33.246) with SMTP; 24 Aug 2004 21:58:13 -0700
X-Received: 25 Aug 2004 04:58:13 GMT
Received: from [66.218.69.4] by n9.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Aug 2004
04:58:13 -0000
Received: from [66.163.172.59] by mailer4.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Aug
2004 04:58:13 -0000
From: Yahoo! News <[e-mail]>
To: me@myaddress, someoneelse@somewhereelse
Cc:
Reply-to: someone@somewhere
Subject: Yahoo! News Story - Ludicrous, Lethal Government Secrets Cited
Return-path: [e-mail]
Errors-To: [e-mail]

4 of the 5 messages in my inbox from this source have the same problem.  No
others from any other source have it.


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Import messages from an OE account
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The reason is that there is no "date:" in the header.
That makes it as dupe of bug 73565

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

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

hmm, seems to be different...
Reporter: IS there a "date:" header in the original and/or in the imported mail ?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[benc]

Re-duping: matti's comment in #1 is correct.

Comment 6

[benc]

V/dupe, following #1.

I haven't thought about migration much, but the problems w/ missing date lines is pretty well understood (and unfixed).