[Dovecot] deliver and time

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 10/04/2010 02:19 PM, 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.
> 
> Either way, is this a known issue with deliver - or is there a patch?  I 
> don't recall ever seeing it come up on the list, and I'm not seeing 
> anything in the changelog.

Your mail client doesn't even know that a Maildir file exists. Can you
post the headers of the message, along with the expected/actual results?

(My guess would be that Mail.app thinks you live in Greenwich.)