[Users] FYI: Bad date formats and sorting...

[Andrej Kacian]

On Tue, 31 May 2016 19:26:24 -0400
Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> wrote:

> Yup...  looked into the code and thought the best place to "fix" this
> was as the message(s) arrived...  I'm willing to give it a shot if someone
> can point me to the right bit of code (inc.c?) where the message arrives
> and just before it gets written, I can give it a try...  

We generally have a policy of not modifying contents of received
messages, so instead of fixing the date, I think it would be better to
just parse the obsolete date string correctly. Look in procheader.c,
function procheader_scan_date_string().

Regards,
-- 
Andrej