empty message-id, no date in Evolution MUA

[mmalmeida]

Binary package hint: postfix

When I receive mail from a particular service (tagged.com), it is not correctly displayed in my Evolution MUA IMAP account: the date column displays a '?'.

The log for the received file is: http://pastie.org/661691

The same messages (whether forwarded by a Sieve recipe or by changing my email address in the service website) are correctly displayed on the same Evolution MUA and another IMAP account

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 349c06e6f2d8e913fce4da07b736969a
CheckboxSystem: 0531969bcfd4f03af7405c98dc94a948
Date: Tue Oct 20 12:21:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: postfix 2.6.5-3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: postfix
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[LaMont Jones (lamont)]

We also need to see the headers from the message - feel free to strip out From/To/Cc/Subject headers if you want.

[mmalmeida (mmalmeida)]

Here they are:

Return-path: <email address hidden>
X-original-to: <email address hidden>
Delivered-to: <email address hidden>
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.myserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465BD23F8A for <email address hidden>; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:52:45 +0100 (WEST)
X-quarantine-id: <QlKfLlzbYlLI>
X-virus-scanned: Debian amavisd-new at myserver.com
X-amavis-alert: BAD HEADER SECTION, Missing required header field: "Date"
X-spam-flag: NO
X-spam-score: -8.13
X-spam-level:
X-spam-status: No, score=-8.13 required=6.31 tests=[AWL=1.263, BAYES_00=-2.599, HABEAS_ACCREDITED_SOI=-4.3, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG=0.097, MIME_HTML_ONLY=1.457, MISSING_DATE=0.001, MISSING_MID=0.001, RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED=-4.3, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_GREY=0.25] autolearn=ham
Authentication-results: mail.myserver.com (amavisd-new); dkim=pass <email address hidden>
Authentication-results: mail.myserver.com (amavisd-new); domainkeys=pass <email address hidden> <email address hidden>
Received: from mail.myserver.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.myserver.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QlKfLlzbYlLI for <email address hidden>; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:52:43 +0100 (WEST)
Received: from sf-mta-139.taggedmail.com (sf-mta-139.taggedmail.com [67.221.174.139]) by mail.myserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B59423F86 for <email address hidden>; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:52:43 +0100 (WEST)
Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=mail; d=taggedmail.com; h=Reply-to:From:To:Subject:MIME-Version:List-Unsubscribe:Sender:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; <email address hidden>; bh=Nj8KQhvKpEkI6zS4VjLj51cl+EM=; b=Ot3Rp2kEFLpQtu7SxPyEeWpQCZEUEda4ejCcfyKBjMPjfcJsla4PRDmC75gaI29LG0nPeN0x6nB6 2dfOEnCdXyhghzD3EH6rV5KFE0yTEdutN4oHZxbrKdMO01Pjqv7sF1tYjakBHTpc2KB0tmhp44Hj b0JXbhqi/2n+xfeK5jA=
Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; q=dns; s=mail; d=taggedmail.com; b=U0/dzvaAhNk7N/S70x5W11WGiIwcVrCCQ8xmglKz6me2QoqQ38/eJGGqPeTXMuxHCiNFMa7InWAj Gi6wkf3tgZJ0wn+6+CYadBgmNP4TF5q68NoGFa50/yWzb19JUZmOJA/3togOBtjEE6zepnY89U+h 5cMtjPG+2KDTG/vQipY=;
Received: from taggedmail.com (10.15.100.16) by sf-mta-139.taggedmail.com (PowerMTA(TM) v3.2r21) id hrmb740d9jor for <email address hidden>; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:52:32 -0700 (envelope-from <email address hidden>)
Reply-To: Tagged <email address hidden>
X-log-id: 33231443238
From: Tagged <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: You have a match on Meet Me!
Mime-version: 1.0
List-unsubscribe: <http://www.tagged.com/no_more.html?unsem=peterk%40myserver.com>
Sender: Tagged <email address hidden>
Content-type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
X-evolution-source: imap://<email address hidden>/

[mmalmeida (mmalmeida)]

More info:

I changed the email in the service to another email account whose server I control (and is older than the one I'm having issues with).

Here's the header. Notice that there is a "Date:" field, which is missing from the previous header.

So something in the new version (and the reason for this bug report) is preventing the "Date:" from being in the header!

Return-Path: <email address hidden>
X-Original-To: <email address hidden>
Delivered-To: <email address hidden>
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by mail.itclinical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3849912EA857
        for <email address hidden>; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:41:58 +0100 (WEST)
X-Quarantine-ID: <JjHjk6czZ9tz>
X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at
X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER SECTION, Non-encoded 8-bit data (char C3 hex):
        Subject: M\303\263nika P sent yo[...]
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: 1.853
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.853 required=3.49 tests=[AWL=-0.550,
        BAYES_20=-0.74, HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_08=0.001, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001,
        HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG=0.097, MIME_HTML_ONLY=1.457,
        SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING=0.001, SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS=1.586] autolearn=no
Authentication-Results: mail.itclinical.com (amavisd-new); dkim=softfail
        (invalid, public key: DNS query timeout for
        mail._domainkey.taggedmail.com) <email address hidden>
Authentication-Results: mail.itclinical.com (amavisd-new); domainkeys=softfail
        (invalid, public key: DNS query timeout for
        mail._domainkey.taggedmail.com) <email address hidden>
        <email address hidden>
Received: from mail.itclinical.com ([127.0.0.1])
        by localhost (mail.itclinical.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
        with ESMTP id JjHjk6czZ9tz for <email address hidden>;
        Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:41:28 +0100 (WEST)
Received: from sf-mta-173.taggedmail.com (sf-mta-173.taggedmail.com [67.221.174.173])
        by mail.itclinical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3413612EA84B
        for <email address hidden>; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:41:18 +0100 (WEST)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=mail; d=taggedmail.com;
 h=Reply-to:From:To:Subject:MIME-Version:List-Unsubscribe:Sender:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; <email address hidden>;
 bh=LUfNVhn29yUq2e7YpQ5RAEjgPSA=;
 b=CvZ23NtHn26srczZTc9/uvoSJtBCXq2BTl/HfSz0IoJww9Xw9Tay2PYXN6XeMPLC0ngcAz95YY1I
   go78WyKPMebWxj67OoFfT/yQU26AqyH3N3SgQNKi8IA7xFoLTthLEnDxkqS0TMlfQ4rPGExN0l1y
   I+L3TdeFo72jnQARtHo=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; q=dns; s=mail; d=taggedmail.com;
 b=f/isrDCsmkByechKtjqIBNXjikuGOELSBFkNsEZH+vyJOD4nMk7PTttSREod2buKXdxSdbYeNKFH
   2rkrosGm2ONU7u2DZLbLXHLHG9cbcMXTcE2g4eAGBa0sKoJp1F6uHmWSsCSUmZA01A3+bCcr/8lf
   rTtN6N7b6hOp+7/Lqkg=;
Received: from taggedmail.com (10.15.100.18) by sf-mta-173.taggedmail.com (PowerMTA(TM) v3.2r21) id hrn61g0d9jo5 for <email address hidden>; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:41:16 -0700 (envelope-from <email address hidden>)
Reply-to: Tagged <email address hidden>
X-Log-Id: 33242277361
From: Tagged <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Mónika P sent you a message...
MIME-Version: 1.0
List-Unsub...

[mmalmeida (mmalmeida)]

The explanation for this issue is in Postfix 2.6.5's release notes (http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/misc/postfix-2.6.5.tar.gz:a/postfix-2.6.5/RELEASE_NOTES):

240 [Incompat 20090330] Postfix now adds (Resent-) From:, Date:,
  241 Message-ID: or To: headers only when clients match
  242 $local_header_rewrite_clients. Specify "always_add_missing_headers
  243 = yes" for backwards compatibility. Adding such headers can break
  244 DKIM signatures that cover headers that are not present.
  245 compatibility with existing logfile processing software, Postfix
  246 will log ``message-id=<>'' for messages without Message-Id header.

It is therefore intentional and the bug can be closed.