[Mailman-Users] Digests sent out with wrong timestamp

[Torsten Ehlers]

Hi,

my MTA is qmail. The date of my machine is set correctly (I'm already 
using ntp, by the way). Other mails sent from this machine have the 
correct date.

But I could fix the problem by using Mark's tip. It was a Mailman bug.

Thanks!

Torsten

Jeff Groves schrieb am 06.02.2005 22:37:
> Brad:
> 
> It seems to be worse than not having the date set.  The MTA itself is 
> behaving very badly by setting the sent date to 0 seconds since the 
> January 1, 1970 (standard zero time in UNIX).
> 
> The chances that ALL messages are dated January 1, 1970 because of a 
> time synchronization problem are pretty slim, since machines don't 
> default to much later dates than 1990 now-a-days.
> 
> Whomever wrote that MTA did a poor job of handling a "no Date" header" 
> situation.
> 
> Jeff G.
> 
> Brad Knowles wrote:
> 
>> At 11:35 AM +0100 2005-02-06, Torsten Ehlers wrote:
>>
>>>  When I tell Mailman to receive my mails from a list in a daily digest
>>>  I receive this digest but the header of the digest mail does not 
>>> contain
>>>  a Date line, i.e. the Mails are shown in my mail client with the date
>>>  January 1st 1970. How can this be fixed?
>>
>>
>>
>>     Mailman 2.1.5 does not include a Date: header on the messages it 
>> sends out.  Since this header is required by the SMTP RFCs, it is up 
>> to the MTA to put an appropriate Date: header onto the outgoing 
>> message.  The server for your MTA must have an incorrectly set clock.
>>
>>     I suggest that you have that machine configured to run "ntpd", 
>> suitably configured.  There's some information at 
>> <http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/WebHome> to help you get this going.
>>
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