Dear Mr. Bell, please use the real list address so that people can
use a simple address check.  Please.
(I know it is just that i am much too lazy and overloaded with
daily work too in order to look into postfix to get rewriting
done.)

[email protected] wrote in <[email protected]>:
 | Quoth unser Sehr geehrter Herr Steffen Nurpmeso, 'ctime() uses

This is indeed a formal and correct appellation (maybe despite the
"our"), but i would feel more comfortable if it would be left off.
In the end, who am i?  A gravestone which hopefully can be revived
in a few centuries if the right heart and soul passes by.
No "sehr geehrter Herr" at that time no more.

 |asctime() and asctime() is defined by the standard and does perform
 |space padding.'
 | I just read asctime's man page and looked at time.h.  When
 |they describe day-of-month they use them unpadded and mention nothing
 |about padding.  What is the standard to which you refer?  When I run
 |'date', it returns unpadded day-of-month.

Well, ISO C was revealed already, and POSIX inherits it thus.
The code which checks this is pretty old, actually.  It has been
prettied up a bit, but in effect it is in use in BSD Mail for many
many years.  This is in header.c, you see the "cmatch_data"
templates, it understands BSD/ISO C90 ctime, BSD tmz, SysV ctime,
RFC 822-alike From_ as they come or came from the UW-imap server,
as well as several RFC 822 with zone spec variants.

This goes back far into the eighties i think, and i wonder which
software produces messages which do not conform to any of those?
This surely is a bug.

And so it is.  Unless i am totally mistaken you, Mr. Bell, have
found a bug that is present in all BSD Mail codebases i can look
at, Apple, NetBSD, OpenBSD, .. and unfortunately my poor one, too!
It is in BSD Mail 8.1[.1] from June 1996 even.
Thank you very much, Mr. Bell!!

The fix is on the [master] branch as well as all the [stable/]
branch series.  I hope i make it and be able to release
a stabilizing bugfix release around the Christian Christmas.

 |russell bell
 --End of <[email protected]>

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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