Thursday March 01 2001 15:57, David Dyer-Bennet wrote to All:
>> How do I get Qmail to include the proper time zone info in the
>> messages? My sendmail machines have it, but anything coming from
>> Qmail has -0000. The machines are otherwise identical RH 7.0 boxes.
DB> Basically, you won't. Qmail is putting in the time correctly, but
DB> it's stating it in GMT. This is actually more useful; mail often
DB> crosses timezone boundaries, and having the received headers *all*
DB> use
This is very annoying! I've spent lots of time training the users to
configure their clients properly, and now my qmail server sends out
garbage, which defeats the purpose. :(
DB> The timezone information is only available in rather
DB> system-dependent
DB> ways through the standard C library, and Dan has chosen to
DB> completely
DB> avoid the standard C library for security and performance reasons.
Whatever that means. Sendmail is doing it ok, so it can't be that hard
to implement.
KS
