[tpop3d-discuss] Opera and tpop3d

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:13:57PM -0500, Dave Baker wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 09:07:58PM +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> > hmm. The embarrassing truth is that neither Paul
> > Makepeace, who wrote the code, nor I, who integrated it
> > into the main distribution, know why the check is there.
> > Paul said that it came from qmail-pop3d, and wasn't
> > commented there, and I seemed to think it was sensible at
> > the time. I can't now see why it would be useful.
> > 
> > I've now changed maildir.c to log a warning and use the
> > message, even if it has a future mtime.
> >
> 
> Perhaps a remnant of a "future dated email" feature?  As in, drop a
> message in the spool with a future date and be assured it won't be
> delivered before that time?

well, maybe that's why qmail-pop3d does it, but I don't
think that was ever the intention in tpop3d.

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