Daylight Savings issue

Problem reported by Eric Tykwinski - 11/4/2020 at 9:03 AM

Submitted

Seems to be affecting IMAP and ActiveSync. MAPI is showing correctly.

SmarterMail Enterprise
Build 7593 (Oct 15, 2020)

Example from my Desktop and Server to show both are correct:

Server
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-Date -Format "dddd MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm K"
Wednesday 11/04/2020 11:00 -05:00

Desktop
PS C:\Users\eric> Get-Date -Format "dddd MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm K"
Wednesday 11/04/2020 11:01 -05:00

Email headers:

Received: ; Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:31:47 -0400
From: "Eric Tykwinski" <eric@truenet.com>
To: "eric-list@truenet.com" <eric-list@truenet.com>
Subject: Test 2 10:31AM
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:31:47 -0500
reply-to: eric@truenet.com
Message-ID: <ec1bf482eac149ee9dddb02bcfbd0494@>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=4cba56a8b42a4cc68df8cec62e5ade8a
X-SmarterMail-TotalSpamWeight: 0 (Authenticated)

As you can see Outlook has the right date in the Date header, but it's showing the received date in IMAP on Outlook 2016 which is incorrect.

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DAVE Replied

11/4/2020 at 10:03 AM

What we can reproduce and wanted to see if others can reproduce to help diagnose.??
SM Enterprise Build 7593
For example:
Send email from webmail to a user on the same SM server (or self)
check that message in Outlook - Time is off 1hr.

Thanks

Liam Dwyer Replied

11/5/2020 at 8:45 AM

We are also experiencing this issue... It seems to be when email is sent via MAPI, ActiveSync, or Webmail and then viewed in Outlook. Below are the raw headers from two examples.

Received: ; Thu, 5 Nov 2020 09:30:24 -0400 
From: "--------" <XXXX> 
To: <XXXXX> 
Subject: Test 
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 09:30:24 -0500

Received: ; Thu, 5 Nov 2020 10:39:02 -0400 
From: "-----" <xxxxx> 
To: <-----> 
Subject: Test 
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 10:39:02 -0500

Liam Dwyer Replied

11/5/2020 at 9:28 AM

I did some troubleshooting and have found a work-around. It appears to be related to how Smartermail deals with the DST time-zone on the server when accessed via Webmail, ActiveSync or MAPI.

If you set the SERVER Windows timezone to a non-DST timezone, and restart SmarterMail, the issue goes away.

Michael Replied

11/6/2020 at 7:36 AM

Good hunting to find all that. Hope to hear from smarter tools on this soon.

Michael Replied

11/6/2020 at 10:08 AM

Anyone seeing this on latest release Build 7611 (November 2, 2020) ?

Tim DeMeza Replied

12/3/2020 at 8:06 AM

We have the same issue. Also experiencing an issue where all of a sudden webmail users are logged out after a certain period of time. Seems related to the timing of this update. Very strange as it never did this before.

Mark Saunders Replied

11/16/2021 at 12:01 PM

Has this issue been fixed yet? We are on Build 7719 (Feb 18, 2021). I do have an upgrade scheduled but need to know if this was fixed.

Kyle Kerst Replied

11/16/2021 at 3:58 PM

Employee Post

Hello Mark. We have not yet gotten to the bottom of this, but have a new environment set up for issue replication in the future and should be able to get to the bottom of it at that point. If you see these issues when DST adjusts, please just reboot the server and this should correct any time difference issues. Have a good one!

Kyle Kerst Acting IT Manager SmarterTools Inc. www.smartertools.com