The time reported by mailq seems confusing. Sometimes it seems to be
reporting in system time and sometimes UTC time?
rwp@havoc:~$ mailq
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
7C0CC451* 75575 Wed Mar 10 00:54:52 [email protected]
[email protected]
rwp@havoc:~$ grep 7C0CC451 /var/log/mail.log
Mar 9 17:54:52 havoc postfix/smtpd[12886]: 7C0CC451:
client=eggs.gnu.org[209.51.188.92]
Mar 9 17:54:52 havoc postfix/cleanup[12887]: 7C0CC451:
message-id=<[email protected]>
Mar 9 17:54:52 havoc postfix/qmgr[31282]: 7C0CC451:
from=<[email protected]>, size=75575, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Mar 9 17:55:35 havoc postfix/local[12529]: 7C0CC451:
to=<[email protected]>, relay=local, delay=43, delays=0.22/0/0/43, dsn=2.0.0,
status=sent (delivered to command: IFS=' ';exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75
#mlmgr)
Mar 9 17:55:35 havoc postfix/qmgr[31282]: 7C0CC451: removed
Okay. The above looks like UTC.
rwp@havoc:~$ date -R
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 17:55:27 -0700
rwp@havoc:~$ date -Ru -d 'Tue, 09 Mar 2021 17:55:27 -0700'
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:55:27 +0000
But it isn't always so.
rwp@havoc:~$ mailq
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
013A7451* 26102 Tue Mar 9 23:07:38 [email protected]
[email protected]
rwp@havoc:~$ grep 013A7451 /var/log/mail.log
Mar 9 23:07:38 havoc postfix/smtpd[639]: 013A7451:
client=eggs.gnu.org[209.51.188.92]
Mar 9 23:07:38 havoc postfix/cleanup[600]: 013A7451:
message-id=<[email protected]>
Mar 9 23:07:39 havoc postfix/qmgr[31282]: 013A7451:
from=<[email protected]>, size=26102, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Mar 9 23:07:57 havoc postfix/local[8169]: 013A7451:
to=<[email protected]>, relay=local, delay=19, delays=1.9/0.02/0/17,
dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: IFS=' ';exec /usr/bin/procmail ||
exit 75 #mlmgr)
Mar 9 23:07:57 havoc postfix/qmgr[31282]: 013A7451: removed
If it were always one way or the other I would have ignored the
timezone difference. But it seems to only sometimes be one way and
sometimes the other way?
Yes I am on an older version of Postfix 3.1.15 on an older system that
I am behind on updating. But I wouldn't expect this part of the code
path to have changed recently.
Thanks!
Bob
P.S. Normally I am a UTC or GTFO for servers too. That avoids all of
these types of questions. But this one is set to local time. I am
being bad on it.
