[Mailman-Developers] Archiving according to "Received" date - add this as an option...

[Andrzej Kasperowicz]

I think that there should be an option allowing to archive mails 
according to date of reception of the posts by mailman, and not date set 
by user who sends it. That would prevent dates from the future in the 
archive: 2006, 2011, 2013, 2024, which you can see in many lists, like 
for example mailman-users archive:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/

Some archivizers determine messages' date by default according to 
Received field:

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http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/CHANGES

1998/02/18	(2.1.1)

	o  Added DATEFIELDS resource.  The resource allows the user to
	   specify the fields (and order) that are checked when
	   MHonArc extracts the date of a message.
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http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/resources/datefields.html

By default. mhonarc looks at the Received fields of a message to 
determine a message's date. This tends to be more accurate as it tells 
when the message was actually received (it is better to trust a date/time 
you have control over vs what the sender has control over).
However, you may want to have the date based upon the time the sender 
composed the message. The Date field usually reflects the composition 
date. 
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I don't know if it is foolproof, but I would wish also pipermail to look 
rather at the received date, than sender composed date (which can be 2024 or 
something). 
It really looks strange when there are so many dates from future stored 
in archive...
I'd prefer to have a few hours error (if any) in recognizing the date, than a 
few years one.

Regards
Andy