thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Better handling of invalid Date headers
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type: enhancement
- Dominant language
- Kotlin
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Description
I spotted in some emails a date in the following format:
Date: 06-MAY-2016 19:00:22
I think due to the uppercase month, k-9 mail is unable to handle them, and displays them as they were sent at the time they were received. Can you work around this issue?
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with the Date: 06-MAY-2016 19:00:22 header and trace how Thunderbird for Android parses and displays that message date. Identify the date-header parsing entry point, then verify that uppercase month names produce the sent time rather than the received time.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100