Re: keeping original date on attachments

[Myriam Abramson <mabramso@cs1.gmu.edu>]

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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