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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">We're pretty sure this is related to the
timezone being represented as a short name, as opposed to in numeric format
(+0400, etc.). The IMAP spec is vague on whether or not this format should be
accepted. I believe that this has to do with the way the function from the C
Library converts the string, but am not sure. </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">The spec isn't vague at all:</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><PRE>append = "APPEND" SP mailbox [SP flag-list] [SP date-time] SP
literal
<PRE>date-time = DQUOTE date-day-fixed "-" date-month "-" date-year
SP time SP zone DQUOTE
<PRE>zone = ("+" / "-") 4DIGIT
; Signed four-digit value of hhmm representing
; hours and minutes east of Greenwich (that is,
; the amount that the given time differs from
; Universal Time). Subtracting the timezone
; from the given time will give the UT form.
; The Universal Time zone is "+0000".
</PRE><PRE><DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV><DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Seems pretty clear that what the client is doing is broken.</DIV><DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV><DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Having said that, the parsing code is in cyrus, so changing the C library won't help. You'll need to dig into the cyrus source.</DIV><DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV><DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Rob</DIV><DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV></PRE></PRE></PRE></DIV></BODY></HTML>