[NTLUG:Discuss] Future dates in smtp *hijacked thread*

[Stuart Johnston]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> 
> How is it that messages can get delivered with future dates? Is that a 
> function of the MUA or MTA? 

It is a function of the MUA.  Usually the senders desktop clock is 
wrong.  The MTA only sets dates in the received headers.

> Should MTA's be configured to reject email 
> where the email date is out of a certain boundary -- and against which 
> date would that rejection be considered??
> 

I think that would be a little extreme.  Spamassassin does have rules 
for it though.