Brandon Pulsipher writes:
> I have been using qmail for about 6 months now and I'm quite happy with it.
> Recently, I changed from POP3 to IMAP, however, and now, when reading my
> mail with MS Outlook, all the times are wrong. Outlook thinks the messages
> are received GMT. I thought this was Outlook's problem, but the more I look
> at the headers, it seems that qmail stamps the messages received at a GMT
> time. I see this:
>
> Received: (qmail 2707 invoked from network); 29 Apr 1999 02:05:09 -0000
That's right, so it's Outlook's problem: it's too stupid to know what your
local timezone is, so it doesn't convert it.
> It seems that qmail should be adding the offset for Pacific time, but is
> not. I tried adding TZ to /var/qmail/rc, like this:
The Qmail server can be in a completely different timezone than your
Outlook client, so guessing what timezone it should use for messages on a
server whose users can be in 26 different potential timezones is not really
possible.
> but that had no effect. If anyone has info on how I can correct this
> problem, I would be so grateful. It's 9pm and my mail says is 3am.
> Somewhat frustrating.
Complain to Microsoft. Tell them to fix Outlook.
--
Sam
