Thanks for the responses - you've confirmed what I originally thought about the timestamps. Turns out this particular situation has nothing to do with that at all (the PC in question just needed a reboot apparently). But at least now I'll know for the future how the timestamps work and not have to bug you guys about such an elementary concept.
thanks again, Scott Smith - IT Manager Westside & Detroit Reprographics 248.489.1999 (Office) 248.467.0452 (Cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Panda Consulting S.A. Luis Alberto Arango" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:53 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Message timestamp Scott. As far as I have seen there are 2 time stamps. 1.The one a user visible sees when he opens the message. That timestamp reflects the time and date the sender had when he sent the message. 2.The one in the header of the message. This timestamp shows you the time the server had at the exact moment the server received the message. You also will see the sender timestamp in the message header, but that timestamp is the one I explained first. With that said, a sender could change his computer time and date settings and send a message making the recipient believe that he sent the message the date and time set it for the effect. The only true way to see when the message was sent and received is by looking at the mail relay log for the sender and the mail receiver log -assuming that the time and date of those servers are accurate -. Luis Arango -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Smith Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:24 AM To: Imail Forum Subject: [IMail Forum] Message timestamp The message that arrives in the users mailbox, does that display the time of the receiving server, or of the sending server? I have a user that around 11:30 had just received some messages with a timestamp of somewhere around 8:30. I've checked my logs, but I'm not sure I see anything strange in there. I can't get to the user yet to see if I can actually look at the messages that were received to find out any more information on them. Scott Smith - IT Manager Westside & Detroit Reprographics 248.489.1999 (Office) 248.467.0452 (Cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ ______ [Email scanned for viruses by Panda Consulting -www.pandacons.com-] [Email escaneado contra virus por Panda Consulting -www.pandacons.com-] ______ [Email scanned for viruses by Panda Consulting -www.pandacons.com-] [Email escaneado contra virus por Panda Consulting -www.pandacons.com-] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
