A bit of folk lore... Unix is considered to have been invented 12:00:00
AM January 1, 1970 (GMT).  A Unix clock contains exactly the number of
seconds that has elapsed since that date.

These seconds are stored in a timestruct structure usually 32 bits in
size.  When the value of this variable is zero, that means zero seconds
have elapsed since 1970.

So this is really just an indication of an uninitialized variable.

I have encountered strange behavior when I added a user account to the
dbmail user table and the last_login value was left to an uninitialized
value... 

**But** when I changed the last_login value to something like "
1979-11-03 22:05:58 " the errors went away!  So I just left date and
continued since it will get overwritten on the next login anyway... 

I wonder if this is related to your problem as well?? Did you recently
add a user without using the command line tool, like I did?


> 
> Any Idea on why the dbmail-imapd thinks the date is 1970??
> 
> ?Bad date in append:  0-???-1970 00:00:00 +0000
> ?Can't append message 7 to mailbox

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