imaplib AND date format

[Tim Roberts]

harryos <oswald.harry at gmail.com> wrote:

>In imaplib.IMAP4.search() the search string SENTON can be used
>'(SENTON 22-Jun-2010)'  .
>But the RFC 2060 defines search key as
>SENTON <date>  Messages whose [RFC-822] Date: header is within the
>                     specified date.
>and in RFC822 it is given as,
>date        =  1*2DIGIT month 2DIGIT        ; day month year
>                                                               ;  e.g.
>20 Jun 82

RFC 822 has long been obsolete, replaced by RFC 2822, and now by RFC 5322.
That two-digit format was abandoned quite a long time ago.  

A compliant date header looks like this:

   Date:   20 June 2010 12:34:56 -0700
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.