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To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
cc: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>, drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: timezones & Date 
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 14:44:12 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


Keith Moore writes:
> MTAs SHOULD NOT add a Date field if they are missing when a message is 
> received, as this misrepresents the time that the message was
> composed.

Unfortunately, systems like Sendmail sort of half act as MTA and half
as MUA in this sort of situation. I know that when I send out mail
disconnected, I enqueue it with sendmail and it handles date stamping
the "composition" time, or at least the enqueuing time...

Perry