Re: SNDEMAIL time incorrect

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If this is really what the code does, then the code is incorrect. 
That's not a legitimate way to set the date in an SMTP e-mail header. 
RFC 2822 (Section 3.3) is very specific about the format of a date-time, 
and it's not the same as the output of ctime().

However, my copy of SNDEMAIL works completely differently than that (not 
BETTER, mind you, just different)

I've written a lot of TCP/IP software, and SMTP is one of the areas that 
I've spent a lot of time working with.   My complaint about SNDEMAIL has 
never been that it's "ancient", but rather that the author didn't know 
as much about SMTP and E-mail as he should've!


John McKee wrote:
> We still use the ancient SNDEMAIL command.  Just for simple error messages.
>
> My issue is that when an email is received, the time in the email header lags by
> six hours.  I tried to fix it some time back, but the time is still wrong.
>
> Here is how I am generating the date:
>
> H    BndDir( 'QC2LE' )
> .
> .
> .
>  D time_t          s             10i 0
>  D CurrentTime     Pr            10i 0 ExtProc( 'time' )
>  D TimeToString    Pr              *   ExtProc( 'ctime' )
>  D   ElapTime                    10i 0 value.
> .
> .
> c*  get time in seconds since Jan 1, 1970
> c                   eval      time_t = CurrentTime
>
> C                   eval      mdatetime =
> C                             'Date: ' + %str(TimeToString(time_t) )
>
> When I look at the option on a received email (using Outlook), the time is
> showing as this in the header:   Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:44:39 -0600
>
> The Date entry in the header looks like this, as far as I can copy:
>
>  Wed Nov  5 00:44:37 2008…
>
>
> But, Outlook shows the time as:
>
> Tue 11/04/2008 18:45
>
>
>
> Any ideas why the time is off by 6 hours?  Am I not formatting the time
> correctly?
>
> John McKee