Received Mail is out by 6 hours. Is there a way to fix this? 2

[gohard]

Hi,

I am running FreeBSD & Sendmail. If I pop mail from my server it reports that a message that I know was sent at 11:47 was received @ 5:47 which is a 6 hour difference.
However any mail that I send that is processed by sendmail, reports the right time. Just receiving it or it arriving at the sendmail server hwere it is reporting the wrong time.
Who knows how to fix it?

Thanks In Advance.

Jaye Carnahan

 

[gohard]

Ok, I have answered my own question.
With the BSD installations we have out there this is the first time I have encountered this issue, and it took a lot of digging but I figured it out.
Within sendmail.cf there is a line that says
# O TimeZoneSpec=
For whatever reason sendmail was using GMT for the reception of mail, rather than the BSD's time.
In order to alleviate this problem, you have to locate that line in sendmail.cf
and remove the comment "#"
Then choose your time zone which in my case is Mountain Standard Time (MST) the difference that it is out (6 hours) and the Daylight zone which is Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
save your file, kill the sendmail process and restart it.
and your problems will be solved.

O TimeZoneSpec=MST6MDT