[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kari Suomela) writes:
> 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. :(
It's not garbage; it's correct. It just doesn't use the local
timezone. In the list of received headers, where a message often
passes through servers in different timezones, having everything in
GMT is *more* useful IMHO.
> 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.
It means that it would either compromise the security of qmail, or
else require lots of extra code to handle various systems local
conventions, to change this behavior. It's not hard to do; it IS hard
to do *well*.
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