Brad:

It seems to be worse than not having the date set. The MTA itself is behaving very badly by setting the sent date to 0 seconds since the January 1, 1970 (standard zero time in UNIX).

The chances that ALL messages are dated January 1, 1970 because of a time synchronization problem are pretty slim, since machines don't default to much later dates than 1990 now-a-days.

Whomever wrote that MTA did a poor job of handling a "no Date" header" 
situation.

Jeff G.

Brad Knowles wrote:
At 11:35 AM +0100 2005-02-06, Torsten Ehlers wrote:

 When I tell Mailman to receive my mails from a list in a daily digest
 I receive this digest but the header of the digest mail does not contain
 a Date line, i.e. the Mails are shown in my mail client with the date
 January 1st 1970. How can this be fixed?


Mailman 2.1.5 does not include a Date: header on the messages it sends out. Since this header is required by the SMTP RFCs, it is up to the MTA to put an appropriate Date: header onto the outgoing message. The server for your MTA must have an incorrectly set clock.

I suggest that you have that machine configured to run "ntpd", suitably configured. There's some information at <http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/WebHome> to help you get this going.


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