Time difference between Sent Mail and Received Mail

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Hi,

I encountered something about the time stamp on emails. We are using
Exchange and Outlook as the client. The emails sent from Outlook with one of
our workstations is stamped at a particular time, but when the receiver
receives it, the email is stamped at a time about 5 minutes later. So the
receiver sees it as the email was sent 5 minutes later than when it was
actually sent.

I guess my question is: what determines the time that is stamped on the
email?
Is the exchange server? The sending Outlook client machine time? Or the
receiving end? How to correct?

Any info and help is really appreciated.

Tech guy in Houston
 
Make sure you are looking at the same column. Most likely the sender is
looking at the sent time and the receiver is looking at the received time.
These can be off since sending and receiving isn't instantly and thus not
the same.
 
Thank you very much for the reply.

What would determine the time of the sent email? Is it the Exchange Server
time or the Outlook client workstation time?

Thanks again.


Roady said:
Make sure you are looking at the same column. Most likely the sender is
looking at the sent time and the receiver is looking at the received time.
These can be off since sending and receiving isn't instantly and thus not
the same.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Tech Guy in Austin said:
Hi,

I encountered something about the time stamp on emails. We are using
Exchange and Outlook as the client. The emails sent from Outlook with one
of
our workstations is stamped at a particular time, but when the receiver
receives it, the email is stamped at a time about 5 minutes later. So the
receiver sees it as the email was sent 5 minutes later than when it was
actually sent.

I guess my question is: what determines the time that is stamped on the
email?
Is the exchange server? The sending Outlook client machine time? Or the
receiving end? How to correct?

Any info and help is really appreciated.

Tech guy in Houston
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The time the local client indicates when the sender presses the Send button.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Tech Guy in Austin said:
Thank you very much for the reply.

What would determine the time of the sent email? Is it the Exchange Server
time or the Outlook client workstation time?

Thanks again.


Roady said:
Make sure you are looking at the same column. Most likely the sender is
looking at the sent time and the receiver is looking at the received
time.
These can be off since sending and receiving isn't instantly and thus not
the same.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Tech Guy in Austin said:
Hi,

I encountered something about the time stamp on emails. We are using
Exchange and Outlook as the client. The emails sent from Outlook with
one
of
our workstations is stamped at a particular time, but when the receiver
receives it, the email is stamped at a time about 5 minutes later. So
the
receiver sees it as the email was sent 5 minutes later than when it was
actually sent.

I guess my question is: what determines the time that is stamped on the
email?
Is the exchange server? The sending Outlook client machine time? Or the
receiving end? How to correct?

Any info and help is really appreciated.

Tech guy in Houston
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