[imp] Dates read incorrectly in current HEAD DIMP (and IMP)

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Friday, August 31, 2007 9:58 -0400 Dan Brown <dan at familybrown.org> 
wrote:

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> Joseph Brennan wrote:
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>> The sender's software is broken.  That format is not even close to
>> what is defined in RFC 2822 (or the older 822).  I wouldn't expect
>> any client or imap server to be able to sort those by date.
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> Then I guess Thunderbird is just an over-the-top good client, as it
> manages to sort them just fine.  IMP/DIMP manages to deal with a lot of
> brokenness; it seems it could handle this as well.


Out of curiosity, how does it interpret "12/08/03"?

Joe Brennan