[MlMt] virtual Date Received when header does not actually exist

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 6 Apr 2011, at 7:29, Mason Mark wrote:

> Viewing the message source, I see that only a minimal set of headers 
> is actually present, and there are no "Received:" headers at all.
>
> Am I correct in thinking that, if no "Received:" headers are actually 
> present, MM uses the "Date:" field as the date received (for the 
> purpose of sorting).

That is correct. Thanks for noticing :-)

> And probably Mail.app decides to use the first date it saw the 
> message?

Yes, they most likely use “now” as a fallback which is 
understandable when there are no Received headers. But I had the same 
problem as you and decided I preferred the Date header as a fallback.

-- 
Benny