I think I found a bug in dovecot which I'm not sure where to fix. (I may even have found a reference to it in an archived list message from Jul 2003.) Here is the situation:
dovecot (dovecot-0.99.10.4) running with an imap server on an mbox system is queried by a local client program, like Mail.app, and is told the "Received" date of the message (presumably sent through INTERNALDATE), however, that date is being passed on in GMT (-0000) instead of the server or client's local time zone (EST -0500, in this case). Maybe it's assumed that the local client will convert this time to the local zone, but no clients I know actually do that.
Anyone know how/where to fix this? Thanks!
- Payton
- payton@repligen.com
This is the beginning of the thread which seems to also note this bug. Was anything ever resolved here?
http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/list/dovecot/2003-July/001906.html
Quoting Payton payton@repligen.com:
I think I found a bug in dovecot which I'm not sure where to fix. (I may even have found a reference to it in an archived list message from Jul 2003.) Here is the situation:
dovecot (dovecot-0.99.10.4) running with an imap server on an mbox system is queried by a local client program, like Mail.app, and is told the "Received" date of the message (presumably sent through INTERNALDATE), however, that date is being passed on in GMT (-0000) instead of the server or client's local time zone (EST -0500, in this case). Maybe it's assumed that the local client will convert this time to the local zone, but no clients I know actually do that.
Anyone know how/where to fix this? Thanks!
- Payton
- payton@repligen.com
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On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:47:30PM -0500, Payton Swick wrote:
This is the beginning of the thread which seems to also note this bug. Was anything ever resolved here?
http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/list/dovecot/2003-July/001906.html
Quoting Payton payton@repligen.com:
I think I found a bug in dovecot which I'm not sure where to fix. (I may even have found a reference to it in an archived list message from Jul 2003.) Here is the situation:
dovecot (dovecot-0.99.10.4) running with an imap server on an mbox system is queried by a local client program, like Mail.app, and is told the "Received" date of the message (presumably sent through INTERNALDATE), however, that date is being passed on in GMT (-0000) instead of the server or client's local time zone (EST -0500, in this case). Maybe it's assumed that the local client will convert this time to the local zone, but no clients I know actually do that.
FWIW it's working now for me (your link leads to some of my comments earlier). I don't think it's a bug as much as a deficiency in the "From " line format used in the mbox storage. I first ran into it long before dovecot, when we put qmail on some systems. The pseudo-standard "From " format doesn't include a timezone field -- historically it was written using localtime. qmail (and maybe some others) use UTC -- but still without adding any indication of what the timezone is. Bringing in qmail resulted in a lot of mboxes with mixed types: some "From " lines using localtime and some using UTC. I made a change to our local delivery agent(s) so that they would add a timezone indication, first using a "UTC" timezone and then later changed to using "+0000".
I suspect you didn't make those changes, so you are likely to have "From " lines without any indication of what timezone they are assuming. So dovecot may be making one assumption that doesn't match what your local delivery agent is doing. You can always go into the code and try to force it, I suppose.
As for me: at some point Timo made a change to dovecot to recognize the extended date format in the "From " line. However there was still a minor issue, see:
http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/list/dovecot/2003-November/002583.html(given the Timo's statements about redoing the mbox code, this is probably moot)
mm
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