Re: fixing email dates
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On Sunday, April 19 at 04:07 PM, quoth Rocco Rutte:
> * Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>> On Sunday, April 19 at 02:26 PM, quoth Rocco Rutte:
>>> The problem with hcache is (currently, without the patch attached to
>>> ticket #2942) that it's written only once when initially parsing the
>>> message. Thus, if the date is Epoch upon first parse, it'll be that
>>> forever in hcache and in all reads afterwards. Yes, this is broken
>>> (though I'm running the patch since months without a problem and
>>> have an updateable hcache).
>
>> Huh - I thought that patch had been integrated with mainline a long
>> time ago... What's been holding it up?
>
> I have no feedback from others about it whether it works. Given the
> current design of hcache, the patch does some dangerous things (i.e. it
> might crash mutt, return wrong information, etc.), so that I have no
> final "go" from Brendan to include it. Feel free to attach further info
> to the ticket :) though I have seen no trouble since using it.
Fair enough. I just integrated it with my mutt source. So far so good.
:)
~Kyle
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