file date of messages

[Dieter Faulbaum <Dieter.Faulbaum@xxxxxxxx>]

I wrote to the dovecot mailing list this (and got an answer back from
Timo Sirainen):

> > I use offlineimap to sync my remote IMAP-server with my local
> > IMAP-server (maildir format).
> > But I don't understand this behavior:
> > every new mail in the INBOX has a file-date which is one hour in the
> > future.
> 
> Message's INTERNALDATE is stored in file's mtime.
> 
> > Is this 'normal'? Is this a problem of offlineimap?
> > I tried this debugging (for dovecot):
> > mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
> > and this (for offlineimap):
> > offlineimap -d imap,maildir,thread -l ~/offlineimap.log
> > 
> > But I can't find any helpful information in these files, which shows me
> > what went wrong.
> 
> My guess is that offlineimap adds INTERNALDATE timestamp to APPEND
> commands and there's some timezone related issue.

Is there something what can change this ("mis"-?) behaviour?

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Dieter Faulbaum