Dear All
I have a query regarding the way qmail (?incorrectly?) handles time zones. I
have done various tests on this, the relevant portion of header of one test
email below. Essentially I sent a mail out from a client on my internal
network to qmail on my gateway machine, which forwarded to external web
based email service which has an autoforward to send mail to my network
e-mail address.
I sent the mail from the client at 19:22 GMT +0200 (western Europe summer
time) it arrived back to me about a minute later and displays on my client
MUA as being received at **23:23** hours, i.e. four hours in the future! Of
course you know the next thing I am going to say... before I installed qmail
I have never seen or had this problem. The client PC clock said 17:22
(+0200) correct time, the Linux box said 17:22 and is setup correctly with
TZ = GMT +0200. What's even funnier is when I send another email out from
the same client (at 18:00 hours +0200) to two different external mail
accounts I have one which is auto forwarded to my Linux box and qmail
[smtpd] and one which is picked up from an ISP POP mailbox (not through
qmail). Both emails arrive in the same timeframe, the one picked up from the
ISP POP mailbox shows a sent time of 18:00 the other delivered via qmail
shows a sent time of 22:00! The MUA stamps the message with the correct
Date: field value. So I have the same email in my inbox with times four
hours apart! and the qmail processed one four hours in the future.
I have already read previous (heated) discussions on this topic on the list
archive but could not discern a clear answer apart from some people saying
qmail works as designed - why? It seems to be the only mail server that does
so. Why does qmail use -0000 when the PC it is running on is setup as GMT
+0200? It clearly is causing a problem. Is there any configuration option
which can be called to have qmail respect the time zone of the computer it
is running on? Where and how would this be called for both qmail [POST] and
SMTP daemons?
Thanks in advance
Patrick Starrenburg
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Subject: Test sent 19:22 GMT +0200
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 19:22:30 +0200
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