[Dovecot] offlineimap with dovecot: file-time is one hour in the future

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 19:18 +0200, Dieter Faulbaum wrote:
> I use offlineimap to sync my remote IMAP-server with my local
> IMAP-server (maildir format).
> But I don't understand this behavior:
> every new mail in the INBOX has a file-date which is one hour in the
> future.

Message's INTERNALDATE is stored in file's mtime.

> Is this 'normal'? Is this a problem of offlineimap?
> I tried this debugging (for dovecot):
> mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
> and this (for offlineimap):
> offlineimap -d imap,maildir,thread -l ~/offlineimap.log
> 
> But I can't find any helpful information in these files, which shows me
> what went wrong.

My guess is that offlineimap adds INTERNALDATE timestamp to APPEND
commands and there's some timezone related issue.
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