From: brian at macserve dot net
Operating system: OS X
PHP version: 4.4.1
PHP Bug Type: Mail related
Bug description: Date Header produces non-RFC date
Description:
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The Date header that is generated in the mail() command is not RFC
compliant in that it generates 2 spaces right before the day of the month,
when there should only be one.
This trips spam filters that are looking for sloppy programming by
spammers.
Interstingly, date('r') produces a correctly spaced date:
Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:51:13 -0600
Probably because the day of month is padded.
line 716 from 4.4.1's sendmail.c:
sprintf(header_buffer, "Date: %s, %02d %s %04d %02d:%02d:%02d
%s%02d%02d\r\n",
Looks like this was fixed in the 5.x branch by changing this to
effectively use: date('r') in response to bug # 29334
line 706:
char *dt = php_format_date("r", 1, tNow, 1 TSRMLS_CC);
sprintf(header_buffer, "Date: %s\r\n", dt);
Reproduce code:
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$toAddress = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
$fromAddress = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
$extraParams = '-f'.$fromAddress;
$subj = 'Test Date Hdr';
$emailMsg = 'Test Message';
echo mail($toAddress, $subj, $emailMsg, '', $extraParams);
Expected result:
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:51:03 -0600 (CST)
Actual result:
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:51:03 -0600 (CST)
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Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35906&r=support
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Not enough info:
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Submitted twice:
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PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35906&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35906&r=dst
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