[plug] kmail and the gigasecond bug

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Bret Busby wrote:

>
> Here we go again; but this is simple.
>
> >From my understanding, the timestamps in message headers are just ASCII text
> strings, so as to be receiving OS platform independent, and, therefore, if kmail
> 1.0.29 is used to receive emails, it should not stuff up the incoming message
> timestamps, when the gigasecond bug takes effect. Is that correct?

I beleive that you will see issues.  the easiest way to test it is:

in ~/.procmail add
:0 c
backup

as the first recipie.  This will keep a backup of all you're incomming mail
BEFORE kmail can play with it.

Then just use kmail.

If you don't experience problems then you'll be happy and you can remove the
entries in ~/.procmail.

If you do have problems you will still have a copy of your email (Yay) You can
switch to another MUA and test it.

All this with a minimmum of stress.

Yours Tony.

/*
 * "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the
 * same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
 * --Albert Einstein
 */