At 1:48 PM -0600 11/11/2008, Bill Arnold wrote: >Messages received via Mail show a time on the message, >Example: Date: November 3, 2008 10:45:14 AM CST (CA) >The same time is shown in the Date Received pane for the mailbox selected. > >What time is supposed to show for received messages,ie.time sent, >time received by ISP server, time received by Mail on my machine? > >On occasion a message will make reference to GMT when recording the time. > >Is there a specification for times shown on messages sent and >received and does it vary by email client?
The message's Date header is created by the *sending* client, at the time the message is queued. It does not reflect when the message was actually pushed up to the first smtp server, etc. The rest of the transactions can be seen in the Received headers. Of course, since ALL headers except the final Received header can be forged... take it all with a grain of salt. The time zone should be local with the GMT offset indicated. The receiving client either shows that as-is or displays/converts it to the receiver's local time. There is no standard wrt to how the receiving client handles that. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
