INTERNALDATE one hour in future for sent message

[Jim Brett]

Thanks, your response is greatly appreciated.  Here's OS info:

# uname -a
SunOS machine.company.com 5.8 Generic_117350-13 sun4u sparc 
SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240


Phil wrote:
> On 2006-06-28 at 10:21 -0400, Jim wrote:
>   
>> INTERNALDATE (hence received date?) one hour in future for sent 
>> message.
>>     
> Unix systems should be run in GMT/UTC (almost the same thing; GMT is
> _not_ "British time").
>
> You then use $TZ in the environment, or some OS-dependent way of setting
> 'localtime' (eg, a symlink /etc/localtime, or some other method) to let
> programs show the time in the local zone.  That's normally handled by
> libc.
>> 've searched cyrus wiki plus web but haven't found an answer.  From 
>> what I can tell, setting of the received date for sent message is in the 
>> sphere of influence of the IMAP server. 
>>     
> It's really just asking the operating system for "the current time", so
> the OS is not using GMT.
>> orrect for sent mail i.e. would work 6 months per year.   <- Update: I 
>> did try that and it works correctly so there is a timezone issue somewhere.
>>     
> Don't run the OS with the kernel's clock in local time, or you'll have
> all sorts of ongoing problems, biting you in subtle ways.
>
> You don't mention the OS you're using (or I missed it) so I can't say
> what the actual method of setting the system "localtime" is whilst
> leaving the kernel in GMT.
>