MBOX-Line: From arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no  Fri Apr  3 00:27:50 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:42 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Future INTERNALDATE
In-Reply-To: <1238715476.12172.239.camel@timo-desktop>
References: <1238715476.12172.239.camel@timo-desktop>
Message-ID: <GERoZH4TIPZi9wipsg0Ecw.md5@lochnagar.oryx.com>

Timo Sirainen writes:
> Any thoughts on if it's a bad idea for server to convert future
> INTERNALDATE timestamps in APPEND parameter to current time?

A fine idea say I. Although I'd allow perhaps a minute or three into the 
future, since PC clocks are so bad and tools like imapsync use append.

NTP _should_ take care of clock skew, but I've seen (even rather 
expensive) rackmount servers that failed (x)ntpd's sanity checks.

Arnt

