[Tickets #14381] Re: Maleformed date in mail breaks sync with Outlook 2012

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Ticket URL: https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14381
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  Ticket             | 14381
  Updated By         | Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>
  Summary            | Maleformed date in mail breaks sync with Outlook 2012
  Queue              | Synchronization
  Version            | FRAMEWORK_5_2
  Type               | Bug
-State              | Unconfirmed
+State              | Assigned
-Priority           | 2. Medium
+Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
-Owners             |
+Owners             | Michael Rubinsky
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Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org> (2016-05-31 12:45) wrote:

>> It seems that the problematic line is
>>> Date: Sun, 16 May 2016 19:19:42 0000
>> Where the last "0000" instead of the "2016" gets parsed as the year.
>
> That's a malformed Date field. The offset must be written as +0000,  
> so the message is essentially broken. It could be handled more  
> gracefully though.

While this is not a Horde bug we can sanity check the date in the  
place where *horde* reads it, but the original headers are still sent  
to the client so this may or may not help OL be less of a PITA.

> See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#page-14