Saving emails to hard drive

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To save emails from Outlook into a folder on my hard drive
I drag it and drop it into the folder in Windows
Explorer. But it changes the "date modified" to the date
I drag it over instead of the date that the email was sent
to me. However, on my other computer I use Outlook
Express and when I drag a message to my hard drive, it
indicates the "date modified" as the date the email was
sent/received, not the date I moved it over.
Does anyone know how I can get the date modified to
automatically be the date sent/received when I'm saving
from Outlook like it does from Outlook Express?
 
Teresa said:
To save emails from Outlook into a folder on my hard drive
I drag it and drop it into the folder in Windows
Explorer. But it changes the "date modified" to the date
I drag it over instead of the date that the email was sent
to me.
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Yup. That seems to be the way it works. As you observed, Outlook Express
artificially backdates the modified date the file system sees. Frankly, I
prefer the way Outlook handles it, since it's the truth, rather than the way
OE handles it, because the date is not accurate. The file's creation date
is more recent than its modified date, which should be impossible.

I don't think there's any way to change Outlook's behavior. There are
third-party utilities that can do the job, though. See:

http://www.attributemagic.com/attributemagic_pro.html
http://www.fileheaven.com/Febooti-FileTweak/download/3834.htm
http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/57098.shtml (this one's free)
 
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