On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:50:35PM -0800, Sam Trenholme wrote:
>
> > How do I change the timezone information that qmail puts in the
> > received
> > header?
> > Qmail is running on openbsd 2.8.
>
> There is a patch for the Qmail source that addresses this issue over at
> http://www.qmail.org/
>
> I had someone in sales ask for this patch [1], and I was able to apply
> this patch without any problems.
>
> - Sam
>
> [1] Sales people are nortorious for wanting to have a time stamp for
> the exact time they sent or received an email. In their time zone.
That's why sales people don't admin servers or write software.
There's a very good reason these headers are in UTC. If you send a
mail to the other side of the world, the next Received: line will also
be UTC. This means you don't have to do timezone calculations to see
how long a mail really took.
UTC is good. People requesting otherwise in their Received: header are
confused.
People complaining about Date: headers being in the wrong timezone
should get a new MUA. Making Date: headers user-readable is the MUA's
task. (unless some stupid misconfigured Eudora puts in Date headers in
other *languages*. I've seen that happen. I subsequently got blamed
for 'my qmail servers losing mail'. Turned out other Eudora's, when
receiving these broken Date: headers, considered the mail to be
infinitely old. Guess what these people were sorting on. Scrolling
down solved their problem :)
Greetz, Peter.
