Smith Jeff D wrote: > > I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for > using the Mail::Mailer module. I have two questions: > > I have a simple script to mail log files to systems administrators using > Mail::Mailer --that works fine as it is. > > 1. Date/Timestamp modification: But I notice that if I pass today's date to > the Mailer using using the "localtime(time)" function, the date that > appears on my email system shows the correct date but a time that's 4 hours > earlier. I thought that maybe it was correcting the time to GMT but this > timestamp is 4 hours more westerly, not easterly at GMT would be. All the > servers and PCs involved point to the same timeserver and that seems fine. > > I'm in the U.S. Eastern time zone. The variable, $todaysdate, that > picks up the localtime string shows the correct date and time, before it's > sent off with the Mailer header information but not when it's received from > my mail viewer, Windows Outlook. I notice that the properties on the > Outlook message shows the received and modified times for the message > properly but not the sent time. So it appears that somewhere between my > system, the SMTP server and my Exchange server, the message is getting its > timestamp altered. Any ideas?
Perhaps this module is what you want: http://search.cpan.org/author/HATA/Mail-Date-0.08/ John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
