Bug#257162: Mail::Message::Head::Complete::guessTimestamp complains for mails with no 'date' or 'received' headers

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:07:16PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> Package: libmail-box-perl
> 
> sub guessTimestamp()

[...]

> If neither header is present, $stamp is undef, so you get a warning on
> '$stamp > 0'.

Hi,

and apologies for the long delay. 

Upstream version 2.056 added a check for 'defined $stamp', so this bug
is actually fixed in sid.

However, when this report was finally forwarded
upstream (https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=15900), the upstream
author replied:

> If a message is created using the provided MailBox methods, like
> build(), it willo have a Date field.  If it is an incoming message, the
> mail-delivery agent will add received lines.  So: the question is: why
> aren't we in either case?  Is a different line added?
> 
> The only good fix is to produce a time-stamp based on some other fact.
> Which fact?


Could you comment on this? How did you end up with a message with
neither Date: nor Received: fields?

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni	ntyni at iki.fi