[Dovecot] deliver and time

Tom Hendrikx tom at whyscream.net
Mon Oct 4 21:53:20 EEST 2010


On 04/10/10 20:19, Rick Romero wrote:
>  Hi All,
> 
> I've been experimenting with deliver on my personal domain, and so far
> everything has been peachy except for Mail.app.  Mail.app (on multiple
> devices) is showing what looks to be GMT times, rather than the date
> header.  Initially I thought it was something I did on my Mac, until I
> got an Ipad to test with - and never connected it to my Mac - and had
> the same time issue.
> 
> It seems Mail.app uses the timestamp ('arrived date'?) on the mail file
> itself (Maildir here) to display the time.
> 
> So.. I have dovecot 1.2.10 installed on top of vpopmail (multiple MXs,
> delivering to OpenSolaris NFS share via tcp), and it seems that deliver
> is using the GMT time when writing the Maildir file, and vdelivermail
> just uses the adjusted time.. Or maybe it just allows the OS to write
> the timestamp.

When your MUA accesses the mail over IMAP, it does not see the Maildir
file's mtime. Your MUA should use the Date header in the e-mail, or the
date/time when it first sees the message (f.i. when not Date header is
available). Failing to do so can only be a client issue. Not using the
timezone you set up in your profile or environment also sounds like a
OS/client issue.

How do messsages that display this issue look in another MUA with IMAP
access?

-- 
Regards,
	Tom

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