We have been alerted that some of our users e-mails (sign-up) were not being delivered. After hours of investigating the problem we found that the problem was an incorrect timezone header in the e-mail that was generated by Moodle (it inserted +1080 as the UTC offset which is illegal). Because of the illegal header the SPAM and AV Gateway was dropping the e-mail as SPAM.

After working our way through the code it looks like there is a problem with the PHPMailer code (lib/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php) that will effect half hour time-zones (such as Central Australian Standard Time Australia/Adelaide +1030 or Indian Standard Time India/Mumbai +0530).

The line:

$tz = ($tz/3600)*100 + ($tz%3600)/60;

in function RFCDate() should be replaced with

$tz = (($tz - ($tz%3600) )/3600)*100 + ($tz%3600)/60;

It seems that this has been already discussed at the PHPMailer mailinglist on SourceForge, however I could not see if a patch has been released.

I have currently patched our Moodle Installations with this patch.

Cheers,

Leo