Our Outlook users (few, thank goodness) always complain that the
timestamps in their inboxes are showing the wrong GMT offset. We've
worked around it for a couple of years by telling them to reconfigure
Outlook to display the "Sent Date" instead of the "Received Date",
assuming Outlook was misinterpreting some SMTP header or the RFC822
"Date:" field.
Recently a student employee pointed out that the problem may be that
our UW-IMAP server is returning incorrect information for the
INTERNALDATE flag. I've pasted an example conversation below. The
mail was actually sent at "10:56:00 -0500" today, but the
INTERNALDATE response shows "15:56:46 -0500" which would be GMT if
not for the bogus offset.
We admittedly are running imap2002e and will upgrade immediately if
someone tells us this is a bug that has been fixed. The only other
point of interest is that we use qmail/procmail as the delivery
agent. Any help is appreciated.
-- cut here --
00 select inbox
* 1 EXISTS
* 1 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1125071880] UID validity status
* OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)]
Permanent flags
* OK [UNSEEN 1] first unseen message in /var/mail/joleary
00 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
uid fetch 1 (uid flags rfc822.header)
* 1 FETCH (UID 1 FLAGS (\Recent) RFC822.HEADER {922}
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: (qmail 10982 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2005 10:56:46 -0500
Received: from webmail-1.cc.uic.edu (HELO webmail-1.priv.cc.uic.edu)
(128.248.155.180)
by icarus.cc.uic.edu with SMTP; 26 Aug 2005 10:56:46 -0500
Received: from jimo.uic.edu (jimo.cc.uic.edu [128.248.5.52])
(authenticated bits=0)
by webmail-1.priv.cc.uic.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id
j7QFujvK008493
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT)
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:56:45 -0500
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.0
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:56:45 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Jim O'Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
)
uid OK FETCH completed
00 uid fetch 1 (flags internaldate)
* 1 FETCH (UID 1 FLAGS (\Recent) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2005 15:56:46 -0500")
00 OK UID FETCH completed
Jim O'Leary
University of Illinois at Chicago
Academic Computing and Communications Center
(312) 996-4643
www.accc.uic.edu
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