Mail: wrong date format in heading of forwarded mail

[humdinger]

When you forward an email, you get a header at the top:

------ Forwarded Message: ------

To: humdinger@…
From: BlueSky via Haiku Community <discourse@…>
Subject: [Haiku Community] [Help] Vcard2people bash script
Date: 1674035128

The date is just a long number (ime_t?). I tried to track it down, but the Mail app + kit is too much a jungle for my tiny brain...

[madmax]

Untested, but his seems to be:
header << "Date: " << Date() << "\n\n"; in ​BEmailMessage::ForwardMessage. There since the beginning, some 18 years ago.
​BEmailMessage::Date() parses the header field and returns a time_t as you suspected. It just returned the header before ​this change in 2015.

I guess ForwardMessage should format that or directly use HeaderField("Date") instead.

[humdinger]

Thanks, that does indeed work! Proposed patch: ​https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/6010

[humdinger]

Fixed with hrev56723. Thanks everyone!