[wellylug] outgoing mail date

[jumbophut]

On 5/3/05, Persian wrote:
> Is there somewhere in my system I can look at the date being used on outgoing
> mail ?
> 
The headers I get on your message follow at the end of this message.  

Note that the time offset changes from -1200 to +1200 somewhere
between the last step on your machine and the first step at ihug.

You could check with ihug to make sure it's not their problem.  If
not, its probably in your sendmail daemon (it is sendmail?).  A
problem like this was noted in Sendmail, and might be fixable using a
config file in your version:

	CONFIG: Set confTIME_ZONE to USE_TZ in submit.mc (TimeZoneSpec= in
		submit.cf) to use $TZ for time stamps.  This is a compromise
		to allow for the proper time zone on systems where the
		default results in misleading time stamps. That is, syslog
		time stamps and Date headers on submitted mail will use the
		user's $TZ setting.  Problem noted by Mark Roth of the
		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, solution proposed
		by Neil Rickert of Northern Illinois University.

I don't use sendmail, so I don't know exactly how you would go about
making the change in submit.mc and recompiling it, but perhaps other
luggers will know.

Best of luck.

Partial headers follow...

Received: from 203-173-166-213.bliink.ihug.co.nz
(localhost.localdomain) [203.173.166.213]
	by grunt10.ihug.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
	id 1DST5t-0006Lt-00; Mon, 02 May 2005 17:03:45 +1200
Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
	by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j435366x000511
	for <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>; Mon, 2 May 2005 17:03:06 -1200
Received: (from lyndsay at localhost)
	by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id j43536Yn000509
	for wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz; Mon, 2 May 2005 17:03:06 -1200

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Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')