keeping original date on attachments

keeping original date on attachments

[Myriam Abramson]

Could you tell me how to keep the original date when saving
attachments? The date seems to be always the current date and I can't
verify when the original file was created (I get homework from
students sometimes through email and I had a problem once receiving a
homework past the due date).

I do use Gnus 5.10 but not on this computer. 

Thanks. 
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                                   myriam

Re: keeping original date on attachments

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Dec 01 2006, Myriam Abramson wrote:

> Could you tell me how to keep the original date when saving
> attachments? The date seems to be always the current date and I can't
> verify when the original file was created (I get homework from
> students sometimes through email and I had a problem once receiving a
> homework past the due date).

MIME has no notion of the date of an attachment.  In principle you
could check the "Date:" header of the message, but this header can be
forged easily.

> I do use Gnus 5.10 but not on this computer. 
>
> Thanks. 

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: keeping original date on attachments

[Myriam Abramson]

Is that true of just gnus or of any email client? Outlook for example?

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 01 2006, Myriam Abramson wrote:
> 
> > Could you tell me how to keep the original date when saving
> > attachments? The date seems to be always the current date and I can't
> > verify when the original file was created (I get homework from
> > students sometimes through email and I had a problem once receiving a
> > homework past the due date).
> 
> MIME has no notion of the date of an attachment.  In principle you
> could check the "Date:" header of the message, but this header can be
> forged easily.
> 
> > I do use Gnus 5.10 but not on this computer. 
> >
> > Thanks. 
> 
> Bye, Reiner.
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                                   myriam

Re: keeping original date on attachments

[Reiner Steib]

[ Please don't top-post. ]

On Wed, Dec 06 2006, Myriam Abramson wrote:

>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>> MIME has no notion of the date of an attachment.  In principle you
>> could check the "Date:" header of the message, but this header can be
>> forged easily.
[...]
> Is that true of just gnus or of any email client?

Yes.

> Outlook for example?

Yes, unless MS uses some non-standard extensions (e.g. X-... header).

Bye, Reiner.
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