Thanks, I'll try it. But I'll have to go to 5.8 from 5.6, which Activestate has advised against since the Windows 5.8 is so buggy. I'll try it and let you know.
-----Original Message----- From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mial::Mailer Date Stamp and Error Handling using SMTP Service 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] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
