363971 - There is not column in the "mail list view" for date when mail was sent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 166254

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Jimisola Laursen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

In Outlook Express there are two date columns: one for received and for sent with "sent.before(received)" of course. In TB there is only "Date" which is the received date. I would like to be able to sort my mail on the date they were sent.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It's actually the *received* date that's missing... bug 166254. Date is more-or-less the sent date (see the rfc 822 Date definition for more exact info). I'd mark this a duplicate or invalid.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The received date is what's missing... in branch builds.  The displayed date in the columns is actually retrieved from the MSF file; and in the trunk, the received date is what gets stored there.  (The date in the envelope header is still the same as the Date header.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 166254 ***

Comment 3

[Jimisola Laursen]

Attachment: screenshot showing faulty Date

With the risk of making a fool of myself I do believe that it is "Sent" that is missing.

Look at the attached screenshot. The mail in question was received today at 18:52 (which is what shows in the 3 pane). Looking at the message source it is clear that the message was sent 21 Feb 2004 13:50:33, so it's not the Sent value that is shown for Date.

I also filed a bug report (#363973) since Date is missing from the single mail window. It might be that there is something wrong with this and another 20 or so mails that I have that causes exact the same problems.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

That message doesn't seem to have a Date-header set, as it should. The From - xxxxx is not a mail header, but part of the storage format thunderbird used. (I guess it sets that date to current date or something if no date is given.)