Date Received in Mail.app

So after much experimenting, I have come to a conclusion about where the “Date Received” field comes from in Apple’s Mail.app. My ‘hunch’ is that it is a cached value that it has for a message if that is available. If that is not available, it will use the earlier of the time of connection with IMAP or the INTERNAL DATE on the message provided by IMAP.

Now for some more useless information. It appears that the INTERNAL DATE sent from IMAP is the last modified date of the file in the Maildir for Courier IMAP.

How’s that for useless information for the day. (Had I known this before it would have saved me the last 3 hours.)

Telnet Session with IMAP

I always have to look this up whenever I want to do it…so here are the commands so I don’t forget
telnet server imap
. LOGIN username "password"
. LIST "" "*"
. EXAMINE INBOX.test
. FETCH 1 all
. FETCH 1 fast
. CLOSE
. LOGOUT
I am not sure I understand this Apple dialog…is it software or hardware?
I am not sure I understand this Apple dialog…is it software or hardware?