simple code to send message was working fine, but....

[Stephen Huey]

I've been using code like that down below for over a year to send myself emails about various things I'd like to be notified about. I've got it spread onto Win XP, Win 2000 Server, and Red Hat Linux. All 3 machines report the correct date, but all of a sudden within the last few days, this code has started sending emails dated two days prior to the machine's date. Is it my ISP's mail server that's doing something weird? But when I use a regular email client (Mozilla Thunderbird) to send myself an email, the date is correct. What's going on?

        boolean sentWithoutError = true;  // return status
        
        java.net.URL url = null;
        java.net.URLConnection conn = null;
        java.io.PrintWriter pout = null;
    
        System.setProperty("mail.host", "smtp.mydomain.com");
        
        try {
            url = new java.net.URL ("mailto:[e-mail]");
        } catch (java.net.MalformedURLException e) {
            sentWithoutError = false;
            System.err.println("MailMessage: Malformed URL in setting mailtoAddress: " + e);
        }
        
        try {
            conn = url.openConnection();
            pout = new java.io.PrintWriter (conn.getOutputStream(),true);
        } catch (java.io.IOException e) {
            sentWithoutError = false;
            System.err.println("MailMessage: IOException with URLConnection or Printwriter: " + e);
        }
        
        pout.print ("To: Stephen \n");
        pout.print ("From: Landing Site\n");
        pout.print ("Subject: Notification \n");
        pout.print (results + "\n");
        pout.close();
 
System.out.println("Again:  " + results);

Another weird thing is that I know that the String results that's supposed to get printed in the body is NOT empty, but it's not showing up in the email body! I've also tried this code, because it has worked for me just as well in the past:

 
        pout.print ("To: Stephen \r\n");
        pout.print ("From: Landing Site \r\n");
        pout.print ("Subject: Notification \r\n");
        pout.println();
        pout.print (results + "\r\n");
        pout.close();
 

Why would the date suddenly have changed in the last couple of days, and why are my results not getting printed in the email body all of a sudden???

[Stephen Huey]

I called my ISP, and one of their servers' timestamping was off a bit! :roll: Ah, the joy of having a small ISP...service on call!
[ October 27, 2004: Message edited by: Stephen Huey ]