From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <86BAE987-064C-4C93-9123-FF34AB1454DD@orthanc.ca> From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <1f535c36d9c93be8d397f508a91c68a0@quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:59:44 -0700 References: <1f535c36d9c93be8d397f508a91c68a0@quanstro.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] upas/fs Topicbox-Message-UUID: bb7087ac-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 2008-Jun-11, at 19:31 , erik quanstrom wrote: > right. since the date is attached when delivered to a mailbox, > why doesn't this date change when it's delivered to a secondary > mailbox? why is the assignment a magical property of the inbox? Most likely it's just an artifact of the original UNIX mail implementation. The \n^From separator line got generated at initial delivery time, and the mail client used that as the display time in the message summaries (e.g. Date: not spoken here). Therefore it makes sense to preserve the initial separator line with it's date intact to ensure consistency for display purposes. Think of it as the UNIX ctime of the message. --lyndon