SENTBEFORE doesn’t work correctly on Yahoo IMAP server
Expression.SentBefore doesn’t work correctly on Yahoo IMAP server.
IMAP protocol equivalent of this expression is SENTBEFORE. It examines email’s Date: header.
It appears that although SENTSINCE doesn’t work, SENTSINCE (Expression.SentSince), BEFORE (Expression.Before) and SINCE (Expression.Since) do work correctly. BEFORE and SINCE use email’s INTERNALDATE recorded by the IMAP server instead of Date: header.
C: 0895789b79c64868 UID FETCH 14622 (UID RFC822.SIZE INTERNALDATE ENVELOPE)
S: * 1 FETCH (UID 14622
INTERNALDATE "10-Jun-2014 13:02:08 +0000"
ENVELOPE ("Wed, 10 Jun 2014 15:02:08 +0000" "test2" NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL))
S: 0895789b79c64868 OK UID FETCH completed
C: 2b535791f07e4515 UID SEARCH BEFORE 12-Jun-2014
S: * SEARCH 14622
S: 2b535791f07e4515 OK UID SEARCH completed
C: b726a850e61c4082 UID SEARCH SENTBEFORE 12-Jun-2014
S: * SEARCH
S: b726a850e61c4082 OK UID SEARCH completed
C: 3e479e518dc04915 UID SEARCH BEFORE 13-Jun-2014
S: * SEARCH 14622
S: 3e479e518dc04915 OK UID SEARCH completed
C: 31b7f9ffbe4f4934 UID SEARCH SENTBEFORE 13-Jun-2014
S: * SEARCH
S: 31b7f9ffbe4f4934 OK UID SEARCH completed
C: 2fd2d29b90a24f16 LOGOUT
S: * BYE IMAP4rev1 Server logging out
S: 2fd2d29b90a24f16 OK LOGOUT completed
The fact is that Yahoo IMAP implantation is buggy. Once, the server assigned “17-Jan-1970 05:37:46 +0000” as an INTERNALDATE to one of my emails, just to change that on the next login.