Thus said Kari Suomela on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 22:42:42 EST:
> After further looking into it, it is apparent that there is a flaw in
> the way qmail creates date headers, i.e. it inserts the time zone as
> -0000. There is no way any client can magically convert this into the
> correct local time. BTW A sendmail server doesn't have this problem.
Hmm, here is the date header that the email that you just sent had:
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 22:42:42 -0500
Look at the first line of my email that begins with ``Thus said...''
Gee, I wonder how come my mail program was able to convert the -0500
into EST... Must be magic eh? I wonder what it would convert -0000 to?
GMT maybe? Naw, a mail program couldn't perform such wonderful magic,
now could it.
> There must be a way to have sqwebmail include the time zone despite
> qmail's shortcoming?
You can probably add it to every outgoing message in the sendit.sh...
But then again, maybe that's a shortcoming with sqwebmail---shouldn't
it be adding the Date header? BTW, sqwebmail is fairly intelligent
when it comes to displaying dates and I'm sure it would know how to
deal with the -0000. Maybe you should tell the people to whom you are
sending email to upgrade their mail programs to be able to handle UTC.
Andy
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