Date in mail is in localized format which cause mail client behave weird

[Ansud]

Thunderbird think, that mail came from 1970 year.

To solve this problem, you should change in config files:

• Date: `date -u +"%%a, %%d %%h %%Y %%T +0000"`
  

• Date: `date --rfc-2822 -u +"%%a, %%d %%h %%Y %%T +0000"`
  

[yarikoptic]

more like date --rfc-2822 -u I guess... My dilemma is that this option is not supported on OS X... although this proprietary system is of no interest/priority for me, it still would be nice to not break compatibility with it -- any ideas?

[Ansud]

Hm, you are in python, so can get properly formatted date there. And then put it inside action script via template as it already done for or

[simonbcn]

Same problem since several hours. Before it worked well.
Server sends: mié, 02 ene 2013 13:03:56 +0000 and this is the relevant part of source mail received: Date: mié, 02 ene 2013 13:03:01 +0000

# locale
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Why is it necessary define date field in conf file? I think It isn't necessary. I suppressed the Date:... lines and now it works well. The mail system establishes the date field of mail in the same moment that it receives the mail send petition.

[alick]

Any update for this issue? I've met it on Fedora 18 now.

[JohnDoe42]

Same Problem here - seems to me that the current date request sends an german ä in "Mär" instead of "Mar".

[iGeorgeX]

A solution could be
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8; date -u +"%%a, %%d %%h %%Y %%T +0000"
this way you don't break compatibility with OS X.

[grooverdan]

@iGeorgeX good idea. No need for ; and =C is hopefully more commonly installed than en_US.UTF-8

[coderua]

In Linux Debian:
You can edit /etc/init.d/fail2ban and add at the beginning of the file, before definition 'PATH' variable:
export LC_TIME=C

And than restart fail2ban.