[SA-exim] Bizaare Dates

[Marc MERLIN]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:00:37PM -0400, Justin F. Knotzke wrote:
> 
>    Hi,
> 
>    All of my teerbrubed mails have:
> 
> >From mail at shampoo.ca Wed Dec 31 23:59:59 UTC 1969
> 
>    Not sure what is putting that false date at the top but I'm quite
> sure it didn't arrive in 1969. ;)
 
That's the whole idea, it's to make it clear that the date is fake.
 
>   I like to append all of my teergrubbed mails into a SPAM folder in case I
> need to regenerate the bayes DB.
>   mutt goes into convulsions when it reads this date.
 
Mine doesn't, never has. What problem(s) are you seeing?
 
>   Any idea what is putting it there?

sa-exim, as it saves the mails. It just generates a fake From line when it
saves the mail to make mail readers that can't do maildir, happy

Marc
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