Re: Malformed Email Date Header

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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > Making The Web Work........ The Web Hub > <http://www.thewebhub.com.au/> > http://www.thewebhub.com.au/ > <mailto:chris@thewebhub.com.au> chris@thewebhub.com.au > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > Confidentiality Statement: > This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee and may > contain > information that is PRIVILEDGED and CONFIDENTIAL. If you are not the > intended recipient, dissemination of this communication is prohibited. > If you have received this communication in error, please erase all > copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately. > > > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?