bug#19083: 24.3; RMAIL-summary should get message date from "From " line if there is no "Date:" header

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:25:50 -0500
> From: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
> 
> I have been putting messages in a file using the Fcc: quasi-header.

Same here.

> This generates a file containg messages (in the current mailbox
> format) that looks like this:
> 
>     From worley Sat Nov 15 10:34:18 -0500 2014
>     From: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
>     To: worley
>     Subject: Re: Reference
> 
>     [body]
> 
>     From worley Sun Nov 16 14:42:22 -0500 2014
>     From: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
>     Sender: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
>     To: Duffy O'Craven <duffy@alum.mit.edu>
>     Subject: Do you know of an opportunity like this?
> 
>     [body]
> 
> I can read and manipulate this file using Rmail, with one exception:
> The RMAIL-summary buffer does not show dates for these messages.

That's strange.  My FCC'ed messages do show the Date: header, e.g.:

    From eliz Mon Nov 17 19:47:14 +0200 2014
    Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:47:14 +0200
    Message-Id: <838uj9bty5.fsf@gnu.org>
    From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
    To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
    CC: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
    In-reply-to: <mvmwq6tzs7k.fsf@hawking.suse.de> (message from Andreas Schwab 
on
            Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:50:55 +0100)
    Subject: Re: git apologia

So I guess we need to ask you to find out why yours don't have Date.
Maybe the reason is the different send-mail function you use?  (I use
sendmail and smtpmail.)