Re: outlook express 6, e-mail receipt time is not same as system t

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I believe the problem is that the person who is sending you email has the
wrong date on their computer. Contact them and tell them to change their
clock!

This is useful if you're sending something to someone, knowing they don't
check the complete header, and adjusting your clock to some hour, wee in the
morning to make them thing you were up ALL night working...

Contact the person

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

The Receipt time is when the message arrived at your mail service's mail
server, NOT when you downloaded the message.

Each mail messages has multiple time stamps. You can see these in File,
Properties, Details.

When you look at the list of messages in Microsoft IE3 Internet Mail or
IE4+ Outlook Express, the Received time is when the message was received
by your ISP's mail server. The server supplies the time. This is the
first (top most) of possibly several "Received:" lines in the message
header. Each mail server that a message passes through adds its own
Received line. These are in reverse order, so that the bottom most one
listed is the first server that received the message from the sender.

When you open or print a message, the time displayed is from the
sender's PC when he wrote the message, not necessarily when he
transmitted it (depends on the mail client). The time comes from his
PC. This is the "Date:" line in the message header.

The time stamps include a time zone code as either an offset from GMT
(e.g. -0800) or a character code (e.g. PST). The mail program attempts
to adjust displayed times to your local time. If it doesn't recognize a
time zone in a time stamp, it treats it as GMT. The mail program
recognizes the US time zone codes and GMT. Most others it doesn't.
Make sure you have the correct time zone setting on your PC. For
Windows look in Control Panel, Date/Time.

Due to incorrect clock settings and time zones and improperly formatted
time stamps (a number of servers ignore the Internet standards), the
displayed times may or may not be accurate.

You may find that Microsoft Internet Mail or Outlook Express displays an
incorrect Received time, when other mail programs don't seem to have a
problem. Netscape, for example, only displays the Sent time from the
Date line. So if your ISP's mail servers have and incorrect time,
Netscape won't notice. You can do the same in Microsoft by selecting
View, Columns and choosing Sent rather than Received.


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"mark" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A5399D69-7723-4E27-A5F7-9B95D52F853A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
my problem is that the time displayed on incoming messages is
different than
the system time shown on the taskbar. please advise.
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thank you in advance,
Mark



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