Generate RFC822 dates.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=1555

3 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9595e541..fc0601c3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ fetchmail-4.3.4 ()
 * Improved POP3 protocol-synchronization error messages.
 * Allow fetchmail to proceed even if DNS is down or unavailable, if all
   multidrop entries have `no dns'.
+* Added Robert de Bath's "fetchspool" script to contrib.
+* Use strftime(3) to gen a proper RFC822 date into fetchmail's Received header.
 
-There are 274 people on fetchmail-friends and 95 on fetchmail-announce.
+There are 272 people on fetchmail-friends and 96 on fetchmail-announce.
 
 fetchmail-4.3.3 (Sat Nov 22 01:51:41 EST 1997)
 * Robert Hardy <rhardy@webcon.net>'s patch to use IMAP EXAMINE in check mode. 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index a8275080..c9a10f1b 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ AC_SUBST(EXTRAOBJ)
 
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(tcsetattr stty setsid seteuid gethostbyname res_search herror \
   strrchr strerror setlinebuf syslog snprintf vprintf vsnprintf vsyslog \
-  atexit inet_aton)
+  atexit inet_aton strftime)
 
 # Under Red Hat 4.0 (and many other Linuxes) -lresolv is seriously flaky
 # and breaks gethostbyname(2).  It's better to use the bind stuff in the C
diff --git a/driver.c b/driver.c
index 7e5824ce..7607004b 100644
--- a/driver.c
+++ b/driver.c
@@ -1214,7 +1214,16 @@ int num;		/* index of message */
 		    buf[1] = '\0';
 
 		time(&now);
+#ifdef STRFTIME
+		/* conform to RFC822 */
+		strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%a, %d b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z\n", localtime(&now));
+#else
+		/*
+		 * This is really just a fallback, as the date format ctime(3)
+		 * emits is not RFC822 conformant.
+		 */
 		strcat(buf, ctime(&now));
+#endif /* STRFTIME */
 		n = stuffline(ctl, buf);
 	    }
 	}