On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 06:12:32PM -0200, Daniel Augusto Fernandes wrote:
> 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?
You can achieve that if you apply this patch to qmail:
ftp://ftp.nlc.net.au/pub/unix/mail/qmail/qmail-date-localtime.patch
or if the australian line is slow:
http://x42.com/qmail/patches/qmail-date-localtime.patch
/magnus
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