Imported Emails Show Wrong Received Date

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I just installed Outlook 2003. After importing my emails from OE, I noticed
that about half the emails now show the date of import as the date they were
received. Any idea how to fix this or avoid it? It's strange that it only
affected some of the emails.
 
Don't import from Outlook, export from Outlook Express.

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After furious head scratching, Mitch asked:

| I just installed Outlook 2003. After importing my emails from OE, I
| noticed that about half the emails now show the date of import as the
| date they were received. Any idea how to fix this or avoid it? It's
| strange that it only affected some of the emails.
 
That is good advice. I only wish Outlook had provided it before I imported
my email. Do you have a suggestions for fixing this problem? I have been
adding new emails to my folders, so deleting everything and starting over is
not an option.

Is there a way to export from OE and then have Outlook identify the
duplicates? Of course, because the received dates will be different , I am
skeptical that the emails will show up as duplicates. Any thoughts?

Thanks for your help.
 
I suggest you go to www.teamscope.com and look at their Outlook Updater
program. It appears to be able to bulk modify any field in the Outlook
data. If you have under 500 messages to modify you can use the trial
version. Otherwise, write them suggesting they offer a stripped down
version that just modifies the date field. The problem you've encountered
is the tip of an iceberg: Outlook's archive function fails to do a complete
job because it uses the wrong field to determine a message's date. What's
needed is a program that can adjust the dates to make them more realistic,
which is usually the Sent Date. Good luck!
 
Mitch said:
Is there a way to export from OE and then have Outlook identify the
duplicates? Of course, because the received dates will be different
, I am skeptical that the emails will show up as duplicates. Any
thoughts?
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Cursory testing indicates that you'll get duplicates. Outlook doesn't have
much (if any) built-in duplication detection and it's perfectly happy to
have any number of items in it that are all the same. There are third party
tools that can detect and clean up duplicates. the Slipstick site has
mention of several.
 
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