Re: [Sheflug] Re: System dates

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet Jonathan uttered these words of wisdom:
>
> I keep receiving emails dated 1st Jan, 1970. I thought it was something 
> spam related, but I've seen the odd genuine email dated similarly. I'm 
> wondering if it's an assumed value in the case of invalid date headers. 
> Ideas anyone?

Have you got an example? I don't think I've seen any dated 1970 though. Is 
the time midnight on the emails? If so, then it could well be a default, 
where an MTA or MUA is dating the mail at the epoch[1].

Also, which MUA do you use?

Chris...
[1] UNIX epoch is when time(2) returns 0 - all UNIXes[2] have this set as 
1970-01-01 00:00:00.
[2] at least, all those I've used :)

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