Gmail stopped supporting full month names

[peterfication]

I encountered the problem today, that Gmail rejected my queries with dates (on, before, after) and after some digging I found the problem in the wrong implementation of the to_imap_date function.

As http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3501.txt states the date format is

...
date = date-text / DQUOTE date-text DQUOE
...
date-text = date-day "-" date-month "-" date-year
...
date-month = "Jan" / "Feb" / "Mar" / "Apr" / "May" / "Jun" /
                  "Jul" / "Aug" / "Sep" / "Oct" / "Nov" / "Dec"
...

The implementation in the gem here uses %B, hence the full month names. However, it should use %b for the short month names.

I can fix this in my project by adding this snippet in my code:

class Object
  def to_imap_date
    date = respond_to?(:utc) ? utc.to_s : to_s
    Date.parse(date).strftime('%d-%b-%Y')
  end
end

[yuri-karpovich]

Works for me. Thank you!

[benjiebitium]

Works for me too. thanks so much

[annahiro]

IT Works ! thank you very much!

[evaldasg]

Thank you! It works!

[ruberzen]

Thanks!