What was wrong with using reformail like 

|reformail -i"Date: $(date) -0300 (server time)"|forward .....

Mate
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 12:44:49PM -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> Hi! I worked on Sam's idea and, instead of sed, I made up a little gawk
> script to normalize the Date: field of messages. It works like a charm!
> Note that:
> 
> 1) It doesn't check for duplicate Date: fields, but it does add one if
> the header comes to an end without one;
> 
> 2) It renames the old Date: field to Client-Date:;
> 
> 3) It adds "(server time)" at the end of the new Date: field
> 
> 4) I couldn't extract an RFC-822-compliant string from strftime (that's
> why the servertz variable). Anyone can tip me on how to do that?
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/gawk -f
> BEGIN {
>         inheader = 1;
>         datenotparsed = 0;
>       servertz = "-0300";
> }
> 
> function printdate() {
>         print "Date: " strftime("%a, %e %h %Y %T ") servertz " (server
> time)";
> }
> 
> {
>         if ($0 == "")
>         {
>                 inheader = 0;
>                 if (datenotparsed)
>                         printdate();
>         }
> 
>         if (inheader)
>         {
>                 if (substr($0, 1, 6) == "Date: ")
>                 {
>                         print "Client-" $0;
>                         printdate();
>                         datenotparsed = 0;
>                 }
>                 else
>                         print $0;
>         }
>         else
>                 print $0;
> }
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis  

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