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Changing a File Date
I happened to notice when organizing one of my folders that an email message
that I received back on 06-Mar-2000 appears as 06-Mar-2006 and, therefore, is out of order. I have no idea how this happened and have tried using SetFileDate software to change it but I must be doing something wrong. Any suggestions? Bill |
Changing a File Date
Each mail messages has multiple time stamps. You can see these in File,
Properties, Details. When you look at the list of messages in Microsoft IE3 Internet Mail or IE4+ Outlook Express, the Received time is when the message was received by your ISP's mail server. The server supplies the time. This is the first (top most) of possibly several "Received:" lines in the message header. Each mail server that a message passes through adds its own Received line. These are in reverse order, so that the bottom most one listed is the first server that received the message from the sender. I presume that you are talking about this date. When you open or print a message, the time displayed is from the sender's PC when he wrote the message, not necessarily when he transmitted it (depends on the mail client). The time comes from his PC. This is the "Date:" line in the message header. If one of those is missing, or an invalid format it's possible fix the message. - Do a File, Save As to save the message to an *.EML file, or drag-and-drop the message to Windows folder - Then edit the file in Notepad or other text editor. Change the Received or Date lines as desired. - Save the file. - With OE5+, you can drag-and-drop the message back to an OE folder. - You can then delete the original message. For the message syntax see: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt Or if that's too confusing, as RFCs often are, copy/paste what you find for the received and date headers. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Bill Helbron" wrote in message ... I happened to notice when organizing one of my folders that an email message that I received back on 06-Mar-2000 appears as 06-Mar-2006 and, therefore, is out of order. I have no idea how this happened and have tried using SetFileDate software to change it but I must be doing something wrong. Any suggestions? Bill |
Changing a File Date
Thanks Michael,
I should have mentioned up front that I'm using IE6, but that probably won't make any difference. I used the example in your reference: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt to change the date and now the folder is sorted properly. Thanks! Bill On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:05:38 -0800, "Michael Santovec" wrote: Each mail messages has multiple time stamps. You can see these in File, Properties, Details. When you look at the list of messages in Microsoft IE3 Internet Mail or IE4+ Outlook Express, the Received time is when the message was received by your ISP's mail server. The server supplies the time. This is the first (top most) of possibly several "Received:" lines in the message header. Each mail server that a message passes through adds its own Received line. These are in reverse order, so that the bottom most one listed is the first server that received the message from the sender. I presume that you are talking about this date. When you open or print a message, the time displayed is from the sender's PC when he wrote the message, not necessarily when he transmitted it (depends on the mail client). The time comes from his PC. This is the "Date:" line in the message header. If one of those is missing, or an invalid format it's possible fix the message. - Do a File, Save As to save the message to an *.EML file, or drag-and-drop the message to Windows folder - Then edit the file in Notepad or other text editor. Change the Received or Date lines as desired. - Save the file. - With OE5+, you can drag-and-drop the message back to an OE folder. - You can then delete the original message. For the message syntax see: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt Or if that's too confusing, as RFCs often are, copy/paste what you find for the received and date headers. |
Changing a File Date
You are welcome.
The version of IE shouldn't make any difference for this issue, but stranger things have been know to happen. :) -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Bill Helbron" wrote in message ... Thanks Michael, I should have mentioned up front that I'm using IE6, but that probably won't make any difference. I used the example in your reference: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt to change the date and now the folder is sorted properly. Thanks! Bill On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:05:38 -0800, "Michael Santovec" wrote: Each mail messages has multiple time stamps. You can see these in File, Properties, Details. When you look at the list of messages in Microsoft IE3 Internet Mail or IE4+ Outlook Express, the Received time is when the message was received by your ISP's mail server. The server supplies the time. This is the first (top most) of possibly several "Received:" lines in the message header. Each mail server that a message passes through adds its own Received line. These are in reverse order, so that the bottom most one listed is the first server that received the message from the sender. I presume that you are talking about this date. When you open or print a message, the time displayed is from the sender's PC when he wrote the message, not necessarily when he transmitted it (depends on the mail client). The time comes from his PC. This is the "Date:" line in the message header. If one of those is missing, or an invalid format it's possible fix the message. - Do a File, Save As to save the message to an *.EML file, or drag-and-drop the message to Windows folder - Then edit the file in Notepad or other text editor. Change the Received or Date lines as desired. - Save the file. - With OE5+, you can drag-and-drop the message back to an OE folder. - You can then delete the original message. For the message syntax see: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt Or if that's too confusing, as RFCs often are, copy/paste what you find for the received and date headers. |
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