Great Circle Associates Majordomo-Users
(April 2002)
 

Indexed By Date: [Previous] [Next] Indexed By Thread: [Previous] [Next]

Subject: Re: date on messages
From: "Sally K. Scheer" <winerat @ villagecorner . com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:26:19 -0400
To: dliston @ sonny . org
Cc: Majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <3CB5D4D9.6BBD46D3@sonny.org>
References: <200204091941530590.01D1519F@mailout.provide.net><3CB5D4D9.6BBD46D3@sonny.org>
Reply-to: winerat @ villagecorner . com


Thanks Daniel. Your suggestions worked just fine. And I learned more about
GMT too.
And to think I pay this local guy for technical support because he claims
to know! Makes you wonder how much else he has claimed to know when has
actually just covered up his ignorance with jargon.

Sally K. Scheer mailto:winerat@villagecorner.com

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********

On 4/11/02 at 1:24 PM Daniel Liston wrote:

>When you send and approved message to majordomo, all lines up to and
>including the approved: header are removed.  If Eudora is getting it's
>date information from anywhere other than the "Date:" line, you may have
>to leave more header information in your messages.  Your other option is
>to change the format of the "Date:" information so that Eudora can read 
>or understand it.
>
>This is the format for the Date: line as I see them in Communicator;
>
>Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 19:41:53 -0400
>
>which is quite a bit different from what your "expert" told you to
>provide.  This is also what I see as the format of the date info
>on the free webmail sites, as long as I choose to display FULL 
>header information.  Your sample header information does not
>include "time and timezone and/or offset from GMT" information 
>which should also be in a Date: header.
>
>This is the same line from Communicator (different message) 
>as saved in the Sent folder;
>
>Date: 29 Apr 2001 13:01:30 -0500
>
>What I see from this and from services I subscribe to for email,
>the "Day of week" identifier is optional, the date itself is in
>day month year (2-digit 3-letter 4-digit) format and is required,
>the time is also required in a 24 hour format of HH:MM:SS.  The
>(time zone) or -nn00 offset from GMT are also optional.
>
>Dan Liston
>
>
>"Sally K. Scheer" wrote:
>> 
>> I'm an END-user as opposed to a system administrator who sets up the
lists
>> and maintains majordomo. After much experimentation and consulting with
>> some unspecified "expert", the person who was supposed to know how to
set
>> these things up gave me this "header" format to post messages to my
closed
>> list:
>> 
>> Approved: xxxxxxxx
>> To: list-name@xxxxx.com
>> From: "list owner"<winerat@xxxx.com>
>> Subject: 2/15/2002
>> Date: Friday, February 15, 2002
>> 
>> Now a couple of my subscribers tell me the messages come through to them
>> with NO DATE and therefore get sorted to the bottom of their messages
and
>> usually misssed.
>> I send the same messages to myself and this is the header I see on my
>> copies:
>> 
>> Return-Path: <winerat@xxxx.com>
>> Received: from phoebe.hosting4u.net ([209.15.2.13]) by  ; Tue, 09 Apr
2002
>> 15:50:45 -0500
>> Received: (qmail 6116 invoked by alias); 9 Apr 2002 20:50:29 -0000
>> Delivered-To: cancer-villag0-list-name-list@phoebe.hosting4u.net
>> Received: (qmail 6112 invoked by alias); 9 Apr 2002 20:50:29 -0000
>> Message-ID: <20020409205029.6111.qmail@phoebe.hosting4u.net>
>> To: <list-name@xxxx.com>
>> From: "list owner" <winerat@xxxx.com>
>> Subject: [List Name for Subject] 4/09/2002
>> Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2002
>> Sender: list-name@xxxx.com
>> Precedence: bulk
>> Reply-To: winerat@xxxx.com
>> X-Rcpt-To: <winerat@xxxx.com>
>> X-DPOP: DPOP Version 2.4a
>> X-UIDL: 1018385694.000
>> Status: U
>> 
>> I believe the ones who have mentioned this problem use Eudora and are at
a
>> local university (our main customers!!)
>> 
>> Any idea what's wrong in the header I use?
>> 
>> Sally K. Scheer mailto:winerat@villagecorner.com






References:
Indexed By Date Previous: Re: [MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)]
From: Don Saul <sauldls@dfw.wa.gov>
Next: Re: reading forged mail header
From: mjn <mjn@umn.edu>
Indexed By Thread Previous: Re: date on messages
From: Daniel Liston <dliston@sonny.org>
Next: newbee questions
From: Mattis Oliver <Oliver.Mattis@icn.siemens.de>

Google
 
Search Internet Search www.greatcircle.com