The CreationTime property on the MailItem object is not as I would have
suspected, ie the date/time that the email was created.

The CreationTime is after the sent/received time.

I have tried on a number of different inboxes /versions of Outlook and
get the same result.

Can anyone explain why this is so?

It's the time that the Outlook item was created in the recipients folders.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"PromisedOyster" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> The CreationTime property on the MailItem object is not as I would have
> suspected, ie the date/time that the email was created.
>
> The CreationTime is after the sent/received time.
>
> I have tried on a number of different inboxes /versions of Outlook and
> get the same result.
>
> Can anyone explain why this is so?
>

Sue

This happens with old emails.

For example:

An email sent 7/6/2004, has a date created of 19/7/2005??

Any ideas what this could be?


I also note that if you put back an item into a folder from the deleted
items, it gets the date that it was created in the folder. (I dont
think this explains the above situation though).

The item could have been copied, imported, moved (move is a Delete and a Copy at least some of the time), etc.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"PromisedOyster" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Sue
>
> This happens with old emails.
>
> For example:
>
> An email sent 7/6/2004, has a date created of 19/7/2005??
>
> Any ideas what this could be?
>
>
> I also note that if you put back an item into a folder from the deleted
> items, it gets the date that it was created in the folder. (I dont
> think this explains the above situation though).
>

If the CreationTime property is linked to the Windows File CreationTime,
then it could be simply that your file has the same name as an old file.
See http://www.devcity.net/Articles/133/1/article.aspx

--scott

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"PromisedOyster" wrote:

> The CreationTime property on the MailItem object is not as I would have
> suspected, ie the date/time that the email was created.
>
> The CreationTime is after the sent/received time.
>
> I have tried on a number of different inboxes /versions of Outlook and
> get the same result.
>
> Can anyone explain why this is so?
>
>