[PLUG] date formating in email headers (fwd)

[Bob Schwier <schwepes@netaxs.com>]

I used the forward to demonstrate that that is how the header information
comes up on my machine.  To me this is normal, no date of the week
included.
This is using pine.
bs


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 16 Jun 2003 16:41:28 +0200
From: "Jarvis, John" <jjarvis@trueposition.com>
Reply-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] date formating in email headers

Hi,
I have been getting emails lately from a particular person with the
following date format in the email header:

Date: 16 Jun 2003 16:23:56 -0400

This is messing up my ximian evolution client ("?" in the date field)
because I think it expects the standard format of:

Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:23:56 -0400

It wasn't obvious from RFC 2822 or google searches as to whether the day
of the week is required in the date field of the email header. Obviously
the information is redundant but it appears that all my other emails
have it.  Does anyone know if a particular format is required or can it
be either?  Note I am retrieving these from an exchange server running
IMAP and other people who use outlook (bleh) do not have this problem as
it seems to be interpreting it.



-John




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