Moodle

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.3, 1.8.3
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.4, 1.9, 2.0
• Component/s: Administration
• Labels:

  None
• Environment:

  Redhat Enterprise 4.0, Apache2, PHP5.1

We have been alerted that some of our users e-mails (sign-up) were not being delivered. After hours of investigating the problem we found that the problem was an incorrect timezone header in the e-mail that was generated by Moodle (it inserted +1080 as the UTC offset which is illegal). Because of the illegal header the SPAM and AV Gateway was dropping the e-mail as SPAM.

After working our way through the code it looks like there is a problem with the PHPMailer code (lib/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php) that will effect half hour time-zones (such as Central Australian Standard Time Australia/Adelaide +1030 or Indian Standard Time India/Mumbai +0530).

The line:

$tz = ($tz/3600)*100 + ($tz%3600)/60;

in function RFCDate() should be replaced with

$tz = (($tz - ($tz%3600) )/3600)*100 + ($tz%3600)/60;

It seems that this has been already discussed at the PHPMailer mailinglist on SourceForge, however I could not see if a patch has been released.

I have currently patched our Moodle Installations with this patch.

Cheers,

Leo

• Assignee:

  Petr Škoda (skodak)

  Reporter:

  Leo Gaggl

  Tester:

  Nobody

  Participants:

  Leo Gaggl, Petr Škoda (skodak)

• Created:

  16/Dec/07 12:03 PM

  Updated:

  17/Dec/10 1:09 PM

  Resolved:

  16/Dec/07 11:55 PM