It appears the for IMAP accounts, the date displayed by Entourage in the
"Received" column of a display pane is the IMAP "INTERNALDATE" field for the
message, not the date in the SMTP headers. INTERNALDATE is set to current
date by the IMAP server when a message is received by SMTP, and is properly
preserved when copying messages between IMAP folders, so this is usually not
a problem.
However, consider the case of moving a message from an Entourage local
folder (say, Entourage's local "Sent Mail") into a folder in an IMAP
account. Entourage uses the IMAP "APPEND" command to create the message.
However, by default "APPEND" defaults to setting the "INTERNALDATE" for the
message to the current date. So if I have a message from January 1999 in my
local "Sent Mail" folder, and move it into an IMAP folder in February 2002,
INTERNALDATE will get set to Feb 2002, and this is what Entourage will show
in the display pane. If I double click to view the message, I'll see the
proper Jan 1999 date from the header.
I can get around this by displaying the "Sent Date" instead of "Received
Date" column, but this has annoyances of its own. I'm not sure if there are
good arguments for using INTERNALDATE for display purposes (Mulberry and
Eudora don't), and it would be interesting to hear what people think.
However, the main point is the the IMAP "APPEND" command appears to have an
optional date parameter which can override the default current date. I
really think that if Entourage is going to display INTERNALDATE, it should
fill in this parameter with the date of the message being moved into the
IMAP folder.
Comments anyone? I haven't got access to my MacOS X testbed right now, so I
can't check if this has changed in Entourage X.
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