Charles Cazabon wrote:
> 
> Daniel Augusto Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Could anyone help me on how to set the timezone for qmail to run?
> 
> qmail uses UTC for the timezone in headers, as it should.  Set the timezone
> in your MUA/mail reader, and it should automatically translate timestamps
> to local time, if it's intelligent enough.
> 
> qmail's behaviour is by design; it's much easier to track a message's progress
> through the network if all the timestamps are in a single timezone -- and UTC
> is one of the few acceptable choices for a 'universal' timestamp.

Yes, I agree with the MUA being responsible for doing the translation.
But some doesn't do that. I've heard about setting a TZ enviroment
variable to do this for qmail. Is that so?

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