james said:
Is it possible to edit the received date? I have archived mail that is
forwarded from one account to another, and I want the date to be the
original received date, not the date when I forward the email.
Outlook 2007.
Since you are forwarding the e-mail, you are sending a NEW e-mail. THe
new e-mail contains a copy of the original e-mail but you are still
sending a NEW e-mail. You always send new e-mails whether it is the
first one, you reply to one, or you forward one. Also, if you forward
inline then you strip out all the original headers from the original
e-mail because just its body gets inserted into the body of your new
e-mail. You need to forward as attachment if you want to keep the
headers in the original e-mail that you forward.
A forwarding *service* might retain the original timestamp since its
purpose is to redirect the original e-mail to another mail server. That
is, the original e-mail is simply pushed to another destination.
However, that is NOT what you are doing when using a local e-mail
*client* to forward an e-mail. You are generating a new e-mail that
contains some or all of the original message.
Forward the old e-mail as an attachment to your new e-mail. If you want
to see what is the received date in that original e-mail, you'll have to
open the attachment for it to view it again.
