Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by MBusa on Nov. 12, 2010 · permalink

I don't like the way SmartTemplate formats the Time in the reply header. I am in US CST timezone. I get an email from someone also in US CST timezone but he uses Yahoo webmail with a web server in US PST timezone. His Yahoo webmail Sent Mail shows the message at 5:24 PM. Thunderbird shows the message in my Inbox as 5:24 PM. But when I reply, SmartTemplate formats the reply header Time as 3:24 PM. This is confusing since the reply header doesn't match mail on his Yahoo or in my Thunderbird. I added the %date_tz% so it shows in the reply header as 3:24 PM -0800. But this would be better if the time shown in the reply header matches the time in Thunderbird Inbox, so would be better if SmartTemplate had this as 5:24 PM -0600 (instead of 3:24 PM -0800) so it matches his email and my email. I'd prefer SmartTemplate to format the reply header using the same Time Zone that is displayed in Thunderbird, especially since I use %datelocal% which would appear to indicate it is the local date and time rather than the the remote mail server date and time. Also, I tested by disabling SmartTemplate and using the standard Thunderbird reply header and the date and time in the standard reply header match the date and time in the Thunderbird Inbox, the same result as I am requesting here. At least, offer an option for people who would prefer it this way if you don't want to change it for everyone as the standard. Thanks.