Bug 64482

Summary: Date header is unreliable; option to use other dates instead
Product: Apache httpd-2 Reporter: Sebb <sebb>
Component: mod_mboxAssignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.5-HEAD   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   

Description Sebb 2020-05-29 16:06:46 UTC 
The Date: header in emails is often unreliable as an indicator of when the message was received by a mailing list.

If the message was moderated, the date could be several days earlier than the appearance on the list. Also early emails may have wildly inaccurate dates.

It would be useful to be able to use a more accurate date.
For example, the Received: headers or the From_ line.