[Mailman-Users] Re: 4 things:
Brad Knowles
brad.knowles at skynet.be
Mon Jan 12 19:59:36 CET 2004
At 12:04 PM -0600 2004/01/12, Paul H Byerly wrote:
> That would make a mess of time stamps, especially on an
> international list.
Or any list spanning multiple timezones.
> Maybe it would be better to override the
> sending time stamp only when it's, say, 2 days or more away
> from the Mailman server time?
To really do it properly, you'd have to parse the date/time
stamps on every hop that the message passed through, converting them
all back to a common baseline (presumably something like UTC). When
the "Date:" header is out-of-whack in comparison to the date/time
stamps in the "Received:" headers, then it could be corrected
(re-converted to the appropriate timezone, of course).
But what would you do if some of the "Received:" headers agreed
reasonably closely with the "Date:" header, and some didn't? How
would you tell what might have been forged versus what might have
been caused by a server being down for a few days, or whatever?
Fundamentally, I do not think that this is a solvable problem, or
that much effort should be expended in attempting to solve it.
--
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