Is anyone facing a timestamp issue when logging cross-timezone forward emails ?
I don't know if anyone else has faced such problem. The timestamp of forwarding emails seem to be retrieved from plain text in the forward header within the email. And since both gmail and outlook headers only contain timestamp but not the time zone of the sender, the system seems automatically set all timestamps to be in the default timezone (PST in our case). However our client may be located across different time zones and this, as we have tested, can cause a chaos in the log timeline.
Here is an example. Today I tested the forwarding function by forwarding an email sent from an account from east coast. In the header we can see it's 6:22 pm in east coast at that time. After forwarding that to our hubspot bot, I could not see the log for a long time until now the log appears as an "upcoming" email. It appears that the forwarding bot thinks the original email was sent at 6:22 pm on west coast, which is a future time by then.
This is the original forward header:
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: XXX XX <asrielhan@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 6:22 PM To: XXX XX Subject: Fwd: Random topic
This is what appears in the log (notice it did a time zone conversion):
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