[dev] [imp-patch] invalid date headers

[Francois Marier]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:44:18AM +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
> If we take this approach, this function should be made a method. But I'm not
> convinced that this is a good idea, because this solution does an extra call
> to the imap server to fetch the headers. This is probably not of a big
> impact if you already use features like attachment icons or even message
> previews. But it might on systems that are tuned for performance and have
> all these features turned off.

Well, as far as I can tell, the extra imap call is only performed in the
rare cases when the date header is screwed up.  So the impact on
performance is probably not very big.

Francois