Friday March 02 2001 01:17, Andy Bradford wrote to Kari Suomela:
>> 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.
AB> Hmm, here is the date header that the email that you just sent
AB> had:
AB> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 22:42:42 -0500
It was NOT sent from the qmail server!
AB> Look at the first line of my email that begins with ``Thus
AB> said...''
AB> Gee, I wonder how come my mail program was able to convert the
AB> -0500
AB> into EST... Must be magic eh? I wonder what it would convert
AB> -0000
AB> to? GMT maybe? Naw, a mail program couldn't perform such
AB> wonderful
A mail program has no way of converting -0000 to anything else than
GMT. The times are converted using GMT OFFSET!
>> There must be a way to have sqwebmail include the time zone despite
>> qmail's shortcoming?
AB> You can probably add it to every outgoing message in the
AB> sendit.sh...
AB> But then again, maybe that's a shortcoming with
AB> sqwebmail---shouldn't
AB> it be adding the Date header? BTW, sqwebmail is fairly
AB> intelligent
AB> when it comes to displaying dates and I'm sure it would know how
AB> to
AB> deal with the -0000. Maybe you should tell the people to whom you
AB> are
AB> sending email to upgrade their mail programs to be able to handle
AB> UTC.
This is a common misunderstading. If mail moves from client to client,
the problem doesn't exist.
KS
