Re: Malformed Email Date Header

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Looks to me like the \270 is some kinda Unicode character instead of,
like, you know ASCII '+'...

Dunno how you managed to convince your mail system that you wanted it
to convert + to Unicode \270, mind you, but there it is.

On Wed, July 25, 2007 11:22 pm, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> Just a query I have which by the looks of my research into it online,
> still
> exists on various installations around the world.
>
>
>
> The websites I build for my clients are scattered over several hosting
> servers, and I've noticed that one of them has an issue with the usage
> of
> the mail() function.
>
>
>
> The sever is running PHP Version 4.4.2 under Windows NT Server 5.2
> build
> 3790.
>
>
>
> Whenever I use mail() to send an email out via a website, it goes out
> not a
> problem, but in the email program, the date received is around 10
> hours
> ahead. This causes my clients much grief, especially those who have
> shopping
> carts and large numbers of emails and have the incoming emails listed
> all
> out of order because of the future date stamp.
>
>
>
> After digging into this somewhat, I had a friend of mine on a freebsd
> box
> got me to email him from one of the scripts, and his *nix mail
> filtering
> software hiccuped on the incoming message complaining that....
>
>
>
> X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Non-encoded 8-bit data (char B8 hex): Date:
> Wed,
> 04
>
>         Jul 2007 10:11:39 \2701000\n
>
>
>
> Now, he sent me the headers of the email that he received, and the
> "Date: "
> line in the headers was showing up as the following
>
>
>
> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:11:39 ?1000
>
>
>
> With a ? before the 1000, which, but looking at all the other entries
> for
> the date in the headers, they all appear with the correct +1000 in
> place.
>
>
>
> Has anyone come across this or know of a reason why this is happening
> on
> this particular server. I have other hosting accounts on other windows
> and
> linux PHP boxes which do not have this issue. Just one this one
> server.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
> Chris Aitken
> The Web Hub Designer and Programmer
> Phone : 02 4648 0808
> Mobile : 0411 132 075
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