Email time stamp problem?

[rcordray]

My mail was out of service for a while earlier today, which I'm guessing was due to one of the planned e-mail server upgrades. This was about 5-6pm EST. Since it came back up, all the mail I've received has been time stamped with a time that is about 5 hours earlier than real time.

Is the server upgrade the likely problem, and if so, can the time stamp be fixed?

Thanks,

Rick

[Brangwyn]

Which mailserver ?

It's quite possible the mail server was receiving mails, but for 5 or more hours you couldn't connect to it for whatever reason, this would make the mails come through with the difference in time youve noted (technically the times correct, you've just been 5 or more hours delayed in collecting it).

[rcordray]

This is on the "mail" server (vs. mail2, etc.).

Shortly after I posted my message, new mail started coming in with times that seem right, so somehow the problem is over.

I have been receiving mail throughout the day other than 30 min or so when I couldn't connect. If I look at the more or less continuous stream of junk mail, I got

7 messages marked between 12pm-1pm (my local time is US PST), received about 4-5pm local time

6 messages marked between 1pm-2pm, received about 5-6pm local time

no messages marked with times between 2pm and 7:47pm

12 messages marked between 7:47 and 9:10pm, received approximately at the marked time between 7:47 and 9:10pm locally

Because I received messages more or less at constant rate except for the 30 minute gap, the appearance is more like a 5 hour time error than a 5 hour interruption.

Fixed this about three hours ago. Mail2's new OS installation was created on a recently retired box that must have had its CMOS time set to UTC (didn't think we had any of those left) so it kept the five-hour offset when we moved the drives to the mail2 box, whose CMOS is set to local time.

[Brangwyn]

That explains it then

So how fast does your SCSI bus go ?? good cornering ?

[admin]

They are just 160's because the backplan is still 160.. Can't seem to get our cases with the 320 as of yet..