Outlook uses the Received line to display the Date in the user's mail
list. I can only guess that it parses the last Received: line to
gather date received. Once you double click the email, the date is
displayed properly and again guessing that it now uses the Date:
header.
I don't want to make an issue out of this, if you want to keep the ;
and popular opinion says that it doesn't violate the RFC that is fine.
My gripe was simply that the ; was introduced in the port and caused a
"mysterious" email display problem which in turn generated 1000s of
support calls.
The simple fix was replacing the ; with a :. Should someone else have
the same symptoms I only wanted there to be a record of our findings to
save the next admin time.
As someone else pointed, you can simply specify a new
received_header_text which is exactly what I did initially.
Last but not least, I'd like to thank you for the exim port.
--- Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@???> wrote:
> Lanny Godsey wrote:
>
> > [...]
> >
> > Outlook Express 5 and Outlook 2000 follow RFC 822 and do not cope
> well
> > w/ the ; placed in the Received: line.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Outlook seems to expect the FreeBSD bit to be a date. I've asked
> the
> > port maintainer to simply change the ; to :. It looks like the
> port
> > will not be changed since the (;) doesn't violate RFC 2822, and it
> was
> > sugested that I upgrade my client.
>
> Hmmm. To cite myself, my response was:
>
> > Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> >
> >> Lanny Godsey wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello, you have the exim port setting the Received header to be
> >>> version; FreeBSD. This violates RFC 822
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>
> >> Sorry, I can't follow you how the use of a comment violates RFC
> 822.
> >> This is more likely one of the many RFC violations of the various
> >> forms of Outlook.
> >>
> >>> Please change the ; bit to : or / possibly.
> >>
> >> I could use nested comments to work around Outlook bugs, although
> I'm
> >> tempted to recommend you a decent mail reader...
> >>
> >> I'll have a look. what are the symptoms in Outlook?
>
> And actually had this changed locally, but forgot about it due to the
> most
> recent exiscan upgrade. Let me remind you that I've got no response,
> so I
> figured that it was not *that* important.
>
> May I humbly ask again what Outlook does with the Received headers,
> and
> what does not work as expected? If you are really interested in
> fixing
> this issue, that shouldn't be a question too difficult to answer.
>
> -Oliver
>
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