vm-preview-composition displays broken Date: header

[Andreas Gustafsson]

The preview displayed by the vm-preview-composition command contains a Date header like the following:

  Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 172908 EEST

This Date: header does not conform to RFC 2822, as it is missing the required colons between hours, minutes, and seconds. There is also the less serious issue of the time zone being in an obsolete format according to RFC 2822 section 4.3.

Seen on multiple versions of VM running under multiple versions of emacs on multiple operating systems, for example, VM :8.0.12-3.fc8 under emacs-22.1-11.fc8 under Fedora 8. By code inspection, the bug is still in VM 8.1.925a.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Yes, I guess it never got reported.

I think the date is just a fictitious one because the real date will get put on only when the message gets sent. Is it important for anything?

[Andreas Gustafsson (gson)]

> Is it important for anything?

It won't affect the contents of the mail sent, but it does kind of defeat the purpose of the vm-preview-composition command when someone using it to see how the finished message will look sees something that is _not_ how it will actually look.

Dropping the Date: header from the preview entirely seems like a reasonable fix to me.