(BWDIC!) Defaults for *datefield{-markout-older}* (Debian #855582; r.ductor)..
He writes
|As a complete s-nail/mailx/mail newby I was really scaried by the headers \
|my firs h showed,
|the time ordering and year of the messages was compleately unclear.
|I took me one hour of googling and a lot of patience to dive in the \
And i will write, among others,
I see, sorry for that! The manual of v14.8 misses the link to
*datefield*, but v14.9 already includes it, so you will have
a direct reference chain from "On reading mail, and interactive
mode" over *headline* to *datefield*, which i think is ok: it will
be hyperlinked if the output format supports it, so you could get
there really fast.
The global /etc/mail.rc, or /etc/s-nail.rc i think it is on
Debian, includes a commented-out example for *datefield* and
*datefield-markout-older*, already in v14.8, but now that i look
again there is no link to *headline*, which i will change in
a minute!
But while doing so i realized that this is really a no-go
behaviour, noone at all is interested in the date that the From_
line contains, and i also never ever used that one.
So simply drop the entire nail.rc stuff, and assign default values
which also fit into the default field width that the default
*headline* reserves for date and time (with year).