Re: time stamps on emails in mutt index display
On 2009-02-08_21:27:58, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> 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.
What is a header cache? And how can I know if I am using one?
If I am, how can I refresh it?
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Paul E Condon
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