When I receive an e-mail notification from Hudson (sent to an Internet-based
e-mail address), the sent date is set to the start of the epoch (01/01/1970),
rather than the current date/time.

As a work-around, I made this change to a local Hudson build:

diff -c -4 -r1.3 Mailer.java

• • • main/core/src/main/java/hudson/tasks/Mailer.java 7 Nov 2006 02:05:30
      -0000 1.3
    • main/core/src/main/java/hudson/tasks/Mailer.java 14 Nov 2006 23:03:33 -0000
      ***************
    • 26,33 ****
    • 26,34 ----
      import java.io.IOException;
      import java.io.PrintWriter;
      import java.io.StringWriter;
      import java.util.ArrayList;
      + import java.util.Date;
      import java.util.HashSet;
      import java.util.List;
      import java.util.Map;
      import java.util.Properties;
      ***************
    • 223,230 ****
    • 224,232 ----
      // TODO: I'd like to put the URL to the page in here,
      // but how do I obtain that?
      msg.setContent("","text/plain");
      msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(DESCRIPTOR.getAdminAddress()));
      + msg.setSentDate(new Date());

List<InternetAddress> rcp = new ArrayList<InternetAddress>();
StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer(recipients);
while(tokens.hasMoreTokens())

Could this issue be addressed in a future release?

Thanks,

Stephen