Question : Dont know how i will ask this but, What could be the problem if my email when recived the time STAMP is totally of?

Let me describe the situation for you:

I got a mail server which is not "SENDMAIL | QMAIL | POSTFIX | SMARTMAIL" or any other you might know of but i am pretty sure the rules are still valid and if you give ideas i will research internally.

The name of the mail server is EYOU this is from a Chinese company called ZTE.

On the MTA i see it recives with the correct time and send out with the correct time as inserted on the server but... and please bear with me as there are a lot of variable here.

We have right now another EMAIL server on a ISP we used temporary to host our email under XYZ.co.ao, i now have my own domain under XYZ.ao, i invoked for the migrated users the auto forward feature at the ISP for the time been so email sent t the XYZ.co.ao does not get lost and it re-routed to the XYZ.ao address.

1. I have not yet installed XNTPD for the time configuration i will do it soon, but i don't think this is the solution anyways.
2. If i send from my GMAIL account and from my Hotmail account to XYZ.ao i get the email with the correct time Stamp (eg: if i send at 8:05, my receive time is 8:05)
3. If i send from internal account to another internal account, the SENT TIME STAMP is SHOWN correctly but the reciver TIME STAMP shows a time lapse of exactly -8 (GMT)
4. The "SYSTEM Undeliverable" error also appear with the correct time STAMP.
5. If i send from XYZ.ao to XYZ.co.ao same thing as above.
6. If i send to GMAIL and HOTMAIL they receive with the correct TIME STAMP!!!!!!!!!!! hows it this possible??? i am sure they got something running on the background correcting the time differences, but WHAT???

I am quite sure the problem lies with my MTA but i have no freaking idea what it is, please help.

regards

Answer : Dont know how i will ask this but, What could be the problem if my email when recived the time STAMP is totally of?

The issue (I believe) is that the timezone value isn't correct (for you) on the new mailserver.

Time is a relative thing (despite our attempts to make it otherwise).

For MOST *nix systems (Unix, Solaris, Ultrix, AIX, and should be most Linux), the system time is set to GMT, which is then offset for you by the TIMEZONE environment variable.

NORMALLY, it's not a problem that your hardware is set to PST, so long as your TIMEZONE is then set to GMT (so that there is no offset). BUT...

When your mail is timestamped, the SMTP protocol calls for you to stamp it with the LOCAL time & the TIMEZONE -- so, if you're sitting in Portland with a system that says the current time is 08:00 but that the timezone is GMT, then the message will be tagged as 08:00 GMT -- which was 8 hours ago for you!

So... the first place I'd look is the output of your DATE command... for example, I have a server in Tampa & another (backup) in Vancouver, BC... the output of my Tampa server's date command is:
Tue Dec 23 16:11:01 EST 2008
At the SAME TIME, the output of my Vancouver's server is:
Tue Dec 23 13:11:03 PST 2008

Now, there's nothing wrong if I wanted to change my Vancouver system to say it was EST & showed the SAME time as my Tampa server -- so long as I fixed the timesone!

Now... assuming you discover you have the wrong timezone set, the question becomes how do you CHANGE it... For that, see http://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Timezone-in-Linux

Good luck!

Dan
IT4SOHO