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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: Michael Dukelsky
from: Matt Bedynek
date: 2015-09-03 12:21:30
subject: patch

Michael,

Thursday September 03 2015 11:55, you wrote to me:

 MD> I do not quite understand what this feature is for. tooOld is meant to
 MD> throw away messages that were kept somewhere for a long time and then
 MD> released. They are so old that they are not interesting any more. But
 MD> if a message is from the future it just means the originator failed to
 MD> set correct time at his system. So why do we want to throw it away?

In the past I have found that corrupted mail has bad dates.  Sometimes in
the past, sometimes in the future.

I typically employ such filters here which provides a sliding window to
protect what I toss.

Take care,

Matt

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