Received Header Info

[Dave]

Does anyone know where Outlook pulls the Received Date/Time stamp for
e-mails? I would assume this would come from the header information
from the e-mail message, but it doesn't match what is in the actual
e-mail header.

Dave

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

I think it does pull it from the header and adjusts the time based on time
zone.

 

[Dave]

I think it does pull it from the header and adjusts the time based on time
zone.

I would agree with you, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Below is a
header from an e-mail. I have removed only addresses and left the times
in. When this message is opened in Outlook, it lists the Received time
as July 31, 2005 at 04:37.


Status: R
X-Status:
X-Keywords:
Received: via dmail-2002(12) for +INBOX; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:59:39 -0400
(EDT)
Return-Path: <**************>
X-Original-To: **************
Delivered-To: **************
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by ************** (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0787A3FE
for <**************>; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:59:37 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from ************** ([127.0.0.1])
by localhost (************** [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
with ESMTP id 33022-04 for <**************>;
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:59:37 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from ************** (************** [***.***.***.***])
by ************** (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45EA77A3FC
for <**************>; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:59:37 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from ***.***.***.*** ([***.***.***.***]) by **************
([***.***.***.***]) via Exchange Front-End Server **************
([***.***.***.***]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ;
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:54:55 +0000
User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.1.0.040913
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:57:40 -0400
Subject: Re: Request
From: **************
To: **************
Message-ID: <BF06B9E4.D749%**************>
In-Reply-To: <BF06A723.A399%**************>
Mime-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/related;
boundary="B_3204889060_989794"
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at **************
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on
**************
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-20.0 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE
autolearn=ham version=2.60

 

[Brian Tillman]

I would agree with you, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Below is
a header from an e-mail. I have removed only addresses and left the
times in. When this message is opened in Outlook, it lists the
Received time as July 31, 2005 at 04:37.

This is on a Mac, judging from the reference to Entourage. Is the Mac's
time set correctly in all regards?

 

[Dave]

This is on a Mac, judging from the reference to Entourage. Is the Mac's
time set correctly in all regards?

No, this is on a PC. The message was routed through an Exchange server
that has Entourage plugins available.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

How are you collecting the mail? Outlook will use the time it gets the mail
with some servers - especially imap servers - if it doesn't find a readable
x-header.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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