Outlook 2003 changes the "modified date"

[Ben Smith]

The archive feature of Outlook 2003 fails with my Exchange 2000 account
because the "modified date" of all items in my Exchange account are being
changed somehow. For example, the oldest messagein my "Sent Items" shows a
modified date of yesterday evening. The strange thing is I was not even in
the office yesterday at all and had no access to my mail. I checked one
other user in the office that has Outlook 2003 and he has the same problem.
Users with older versions of Outlook do not experience this issue.

From what I understand, the modified date can be changed by replying,
forwarding, moving, or copying the message (including importing and
exporting), but I have not imported or exported anything and it seems like
every one of my messages in all folders has the same modified date. (The
time is slightly different, incrementally getting later as the messages get
older in each folder, as though some process is running that is changing the
date one by one or something...)

Our Exchange server is 2k, running Symantec Corporate AV for Exchange. All
stores are backed up every morning using exmerge.

Thanks.

Ben

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Exmerge!? That's not a really nice way to create your backups with. From
your explanation Outlook doesn't even play a part in this since it also
happens when you are not in Outlook. I don't know if Symantec does some sort
of flagging once it scans a message but this could also effect the modified
date. I haven't tested it but I believe importing (or in your case;
restoring) your exmerged pst-files will also effect the modified date. So if
your admins did a restore yesterday evening the date you see is correct.

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