Move/copy email msg to a folder on server and keep created date?

[Cathi]

I am trying to save my email messages to a server file or to my hard drive
and still have it retain its original sent date. I need to save them as a
..msg file so I may use an algorithm to count metrics.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cathi

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I am trying to save my email messages to a server file or to my hard drive
and still have it retain its original sent date. I need to save them as a
.msg file so I may use an algorithm to count metrics.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cathi

Drag it to the folder and it will have its original Sent date, which you'll be
able to see when you open the message. It will NOT use the Sent date as the
file creation date. The file system will use the date you created the file,
since it's just a file as far as Windows is concerned and has no more
significance that a text file or a Word document or a INI file for some
application you use. The date in a mesage has no external visibility.
There's no way the Windows file system can possibly know what dates are
contained _within_ the message. There may be a tool you can download that
will tweak the file creation date to be the date you want, however. Google
will find it for you, if so.