Re: time stamps on emails in mutt index display

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday, February  8 at 03:34 PM, quoth Paul E Condon:
> Where does mutt get the date and time that it displays 
> in the index of emails in a folder? I ask because I am 
> trying to build an archive of old email in maildir 
> format and I have a troublesome email (well more than 
> one, but one is particularly troublesome).
>
> The desplayed date is 1970-01-01 00:00:00. I know that 
> this is the Unix epoch. I opened this particular email 
> in vim, say the there was no Date: line in it, and put 
> one in. But, even with multiple restarts of the program 
> and fiddles with the formate of the date string, I still 
> see the Unix epoch. Where should I dummy in a date on 
> an email so that mutt sees it? (and believes it?)

Are you using a header cache? If you are, mutt won't actually read the 
email itself, and will read the cache instead.

~Kyle
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