Date of posts submitted by email

[swaldman]

Title:
Date of posts submitted by email

Area:
Posting by email

Summary:
Date and time of a post submitted by email should be taken from the email's Date: header.

Description:
At present, posts that are submitted by email get a date and time based on when they are received by Dreamwidth.
IMHO this is wrong, because many emails are written offline and may not be synced until hours or days later. The date and time of the post should be taken from the Date: header of the email, which (depending on mail client) will usually reflect when it was written.

Ideally, it should also be possible to manually specify the date/time using "post-date:" or similar in the body, in the same way that security settings, tags, etc., can be specified.

Poll #1499 Date of posts submitted by email

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 30

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Should be implemented as-is.
11 (36.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (13.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
8 (26.7%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (23.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)