Re: qmail local time

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 bryan@ak.net wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:25:50PM -0900, Scott Johnson <scott@akghetto.com> wrote:
> > I never received any responses to this from the LUG, so I wanted to let
> > everyone know that I found a patch at
> > http://www.gbch.net/software/qmail-localtime-patch that did exactly
> > what I was looking for - qmail is written to timestamp all messages in
> > UTC/GMC - this patch changes it so qmail will timestamp in the local
> > machine's UTC offset.
>
> Thanks, Scott, I was wondering about the same thing.
>
> What I'm wondering about now is whether there's any reason why
> this would be a bad idea. I'm no email administrator, so I don't
> know one way or the other.
>
> Does anyone know why changing the timestamp method might cause
> trouble somewhere?

As long as it's clear in the headers what the local timezone offset is
from UTC, there shouldn't be any problem. I think the main reason for
accurate time information in the headers is for backtracking purposes--I
don't think it has any implications whatsoever for delivery. For those
backtracking purposes, the timezone offset is much more important than the
timezone abbreviation since a sysadmin in South Africa may have no idea
what AKST or MDT may mean.

Mike
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Received on Mon Mar 22 08:06:42 2004