On 1/14/2016 11:32 PM, Eric Kom wrote: > Good day folk, > I ran Postfix with Dovecot as a mailbox for years now. > I noticed that, when a sender sent mails, the mailbox received it using > the date and time from the sender machine not a server one. > Which make the receiver mailbox saving the mails at the wrong time. > Please can someone help me if something have to be done regarding this > issue? > Thanks >
The Date: header, which is used by most desktop mail clients for sorting, is added by the sending machine when the mail is created. The server puts its time in the Received: header and does not alter the Date: header. The correct solution is to fix the time on the sending machine. -- Noel Jones
