<p>Here is how it works. The code is really straightforward in this area. ;-)</p>
<p>Pushing a mail on remote IMAP is called "APPEND". This is done in the <a href="https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/blob/next/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py#L498">savemessage() method</a>.</p>
<p>This method applies the date as returned by the <a href="https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/blob/next/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py#L422">__getmessageinternaldate() method</a>.</p>
<p>The local Maildir does NOT have real INTERNALDATE (as defined by IMAP standard). We fake it with the values taken from the <code>rtime</code> parameter (coming from <a href="https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/blob/next/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py#L243">getmessagetime()</a>, the modification time of the file) and fallback to the header if it looks wrong.</p>
<p>I'm giving you the details because you might want to insert debug <code>print</code> statements to get where it might fail. The comments in the code are helpfull.</p>
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