ssmtp 2.61 produces bad dates

[telemachus@…]

The current version of ssmtp produces dates like the following:

Date: Wed, _d Aug 2009 06:32:00 -0400

The '_d' can be traced back to arpadate.c, line 82:

const char *format = "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z";

Apparently %_d wants to produce a date with a leading space for single digits, but the format isn't universally recognized. So what actually gets printed is '_d' for every date. (See this post: ​http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00031.html)

MacPorts seems to get the source for ssmtp from Debian, and the current Debian stable version (2.62) has changed the formatting string to use %d. On OS X, I think that %e would work as well.

Thanks in advance

[telemachus@…]

Cc Me!

[snc@…]

Either a reinplace or a patch would suffice for this.

    reinplace s|const char *format = "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z";|const char *format = "%a, %e %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z";| ${worksrcpath}/arpadate.c

--- arpadate.c.orig	2009-08-23 09:53:27.000000000 -0400
+++ arpadate.c	2009-08-23 09:53:38.000000000 -0400
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 	time_t now;
 
 	/* RFC822 format string borrowed from GNU shellutils date.c */
-	const char *format = "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z";
+	const char *format = "%a, %e %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z";
 
 	now = time(NULL);
 

[jmr@…]

r73562