[8186] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.3M: mhmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 13 16:15:12 1991
From: ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 91 16:15:42 -0400
To: pevzner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, web@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: [8183]
> Question:
> Hi!
> I've just discovered that mhmail does not understand the standard UNIX
> date format (Ex: "Date: Thu, 12 Sep 15:13:28 1991");
> it only recognizes its oun variation (Ex: "Date: Thu, 12 Sep 91 16:09:42 EDT".)
> Is there a way to fix this extremely annoying feature
> and teach mhmail how to understand both formats?
> Thanks,
> -Boris
Section 5 of RFC822 specifies the syntax of date-time formats allowed by
the SMTP protocol. It turns out that the Unix "date" command produces
an illegal format, and therefore this is not a problem with MH; rather,
it is a problem with the program or user generating the non-compliant
"Date:" fields.
(Please include this response in the appropriate OLC logs.)
-Calvin
