Subj : Unixtime in M_GOT frames
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Oli
Date : Sun Nov 10 2019 09:35 am

 Ol>> Every mailer should reject that M_GOT, the value doesn't make any
 Ol>> sense.

 AL> Incidentally, I discovered that the timestamp of that file on disk was
 AL> showing as November 25, 1961, so it should be a negative value.
 AL> Converting the decimal to hex yields FFFF FFFF F0C4 3650, which in 2's
 AL> complement notation is -255576496.  A quick Unix time conversion
 AL> results in Sat 25 Nov 1961 10:31:44 PM UTC.  Therefore, it appears
 AL> that the value is a correct 64-bit Unixtime for the file timestamp as
 AL> it was on disk.

I didn't expect that SIOREG.ZIP is that old ;-). It makes more sense now. The 
question is which of the two mailers doesn't handle the negative unix timestamp 
well.

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