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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Subject: Re: keeping original date on attachments
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:57:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v93b7zjn3o.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yxdirgva7ss.fsf@cs1.gmu.edu>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-01 16:40 Myriam Abramson
2006-12-01 21:57 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2006-12-06  3:33   ` Myriam Abramson
2006-12-06  8:57     ` Reiner Steib

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