[NTLUG:Discuss] GMT and Time (NEVER MIND!)

[egome@ticnet.com]

It never fails....you beat your head silly trying to figure something
out...you go ask for help...and then WALLA the answer presents itsself.

What I've learned.

SMTP servers send email with WHATEVER timestamp they want to use.  whether
it's GMT EST -0600 or -0500.

It is up to the CLIENT to determine how they want to interpret the date. 
In the case of Eudora 4.3 there is an option "view email using 1) Sender's
timezone (which takes the time from the sending server's SMTP stamp..which
by the way COULD be set to GMT...even if it is really located @ -0600 GMT)
or 2) view email using LOCAL TIME.

so...I have much to learn about GMT vs Local time...and which to keep on MY
server.


egome at ticnet.com writes:

> 
> I have a user that is REALLY getting confused trying to sort his email.
> He uses Eudora 4.3 for Wingnuts in IMAP mode to retrieve his messages from
> an account on a Slack 7.1  box that is configured with
> sendmail/fetchmail/and the PINE POP3 and IMAP servers.
> 
> The issue is that some mail comes in stamed with a GMT time such as in this
> header: 
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:36:33 GMT
> 
> While other message are stamped:
> 
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:32:27 -0600
> 
> (note: these date stamps were pulled from the PINE 4.21 client accessing
> his mailbox.)
> 
> The first example was a message that we sent to his mailbox from a web
> based email service. (a la yahoo).  The second message was a message that
> we sent to ourselves from the local eudora client.  Of course it never went
> beyond the mail server seeing as how the server saw the message as a
> 'local' delivery.
> 
> So where do I start?  All I know is that it's a time issue...I have no idea
> what hypothesis to form, and without a hypothesis, there can be no
> solution!
> 
> (in other words...I'm lost!)
> 
> --Thanks.
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