Well, after searching for sometime to see if anyone else was having
this problem, I came to the conclusion that maybe it's just me. I'm
currently running qmail-1.03 and have it setup to deliver mail to
~/mail/inbox for each user (mbox instead of maildir). Most of the
people I support are using Outlook as their mail client, which doesn't
handle GMT dates correctly. In order to attempt to fix the problem, I
used the qmail-date-localtime.patch. This patch partially works.
I'll show you what I mean:
>From email@domain Fri Dec 08 17:49:04 2000
Received: (qmail 21700 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2000 12:49:04
-0500
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:42:24 -0500
The applied patch successfully changes the dates in the "Received" and
"Date" headers, but it doesn't change the date in the "From" header
that marks the beginning of the new message. I'm assuming this is
where Outlook and the broken email clients like it get their date
from. I attempted, with little success, to modify the code in
myctime.c (the function that is called to write the From header), but
qmail-local kept puking. If I could get myctime.c patched for
non-GMT, then I think maildir2mbox and qmail-local would be happy.
So, I was wondering if anyone out there had already done such a patch
for myctime.c. The patch looks like it would be very similiar to
qmail-date-localtime patch, but like I said, I had little success
implementing it.. Is anyone else having this problem with mbox and
Outlook clients? Is this just an mbox thing? I wish I could just
tell everyone to use a halfway decent email client, but these folks
lack the skill or knowledge to use anything other than a M$ product.
Thanks,
Brian
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Brian Wilson
Systems Administrator
Sentrisystems.com, Inc.
