Re: Mail Search surrogate
Re: Mail Search surrogate
- Subject: Re: Mail Search surrogate
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:05:37 -0500
On Apr 9, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Apr 9, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Luther Fuller wrote:
And now for the bad news. I've discovered that 'date sent' and
'date received' don't mean what most of us think it means. This
confused me for awhile. In Mail ...
Only
date sent --- This is when the author of the message CREATED the
message. If a message is created on 1 Jan 2008, then left in the
drafts mailbox and not sent until 8 April 2009, then the date sent
is 1 Jan 2008.
That applies only to mail sent by mail.app; if you receive mail sent
from some other application, that's not necessarily true.
(This is something Apple can and should change.)
That's not as easy as it may sound; it would require changing the
header on the fly.
Precisely! "it would require changing the header on the fly." But that
can be done and would avoid an incorrect and silly date sent.
I've been reflecting on mail dates for the past hour or so and ...
The current 'date received' corresponds to what would be called the
'post mark date' of snail mail or the oldest (first) received date in
the long header. The 'date received' ought to correspond to the date/
time when the message was made available to the recipient. This, I
think, is the most recent (last) date in the long header. In snail
mail, it corresponds to ...
(In other words, the 'date received' is actually the date you want to
use if you interested in knowing when a message was actually sent. But
try explaining that in any kind of documentation. So, I just use 'date
sent' and play like it works!)
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