I hate looking at emails with the Date header in UTC. I very much prefer localtime. *So*, I checked at qmail.org and there is indeedy a patch for such a feature, and I integrated it into the qmail ebuild. Later I will probably have a list of additional patches to qmail to improve its functionality and usability. The patches I speak of are common and well-respected. --- qmail-1.03-r8.ebuild Mon Jun 10 15:14:43 2002 +++ qmail-1.03-r9.ebuild Fri Jun 21 10:44:37 2002 @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ SRC_URI="http://cr.yp.to/software/qmail-1.03.tar.gz http://www.qmail.org/big-todo.103.patch http://www.qmail.org/big-concurrency.patch - http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch" + http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch + ftp://ftp.nlc.net.au/pub/unix/mail/qmail/qmail-date-localtime.patch" DEPEND="virtual/glibc sys-apps/groff @@ -52,6 +53,9 @@ echo "Applying QMAILQUEUE patch..." patch < ${FILESDIR}/${PV}-${PR}/qmail-queue.patch + echo "Applying localtime patch..." + patch < ${FILESDIR}/${PV}-${PR}/qmail-date-localtime.patch + echo "gcc ${CFLAGS}" > conf-cc echo "gcc" > conf-ld echo "500" > conf-spawn
before you do, make sure to describe the patches sufficiently... if you already did the research, please let us have part in the knowledge you gained. as for this particular patch - i think it is a good feature and i will consider putting it in some time soon. we might misuse the nls use flag for that... to me it is very important that all patches that change default behavior are optional... please consider having use flags enable any patches you submit. that being said, we probably won't introduce new useflags for qmail only FYI you may want to take a look at bug #2808 and bug #3405 for our troubles with the tls patch
Perhaps applying all patches in ${FILESDIR}/1.03 or something like that would allow some "local" customization?
Additionally, this patch might not be desireable for other users. Thus the enhancement proposal.
