[Cvs-syncmail] Patch for date field

[Kevin R. <ke...@ro...>]

Hello cvs-syncmail folks,

The below explanation and patch were submitted by a Debian user:

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> When cvs-syncmail sends an E-mail, the date header is not included in
> the E-mail.  This causes some mail readers to sort the new E-mail
> incorrectly.  This patch fixes the problem.
>
> -Tim Winter


--- /usr/bin/syncmail	Sat Jan 18 11:35:16 2003
+++ syncmail	Tue Mar 11 10:18:04 2003
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@
                     'people'  : string.join(people, COMMASPACE),
                     'subject' : subject,
                     'version' : __version__,
+                    'date'    : time.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000', time.gmtime())
                     }
             print '''\
 From: %(name)s <%(address)s>
@@ -271,6 +272,7 @@
             print '''\
 Subject: %(subject)s
 X-Mailer: Python syncmail %(version)s <http://sf.net/projects/cvs-syncmail>
+Date: %(date)s
 ''' % vars
             s.write(sys.stdin.read())
             # append the diffs if available