Hi Windisch,
> A friend of mine has a problem with importing his
> messages from Outlook Express 5.0. The Bat! imports his
> letters fine but it shows every messages as received on
> the day it was imported. I know this was usual for the
> previous versions, I have tons of messages received on
> november 28, but I thought that this problem was corrected
> in version 1.42... but it seems that I was wrong. Is there
> a way to keep the date of the messages?
I'm troubled by the same problem, and I'm afraid there is no
easy solution before RIT fix it. There are two not so
elegant fixes, however.
1. Ignore the received date, and use the created date
instead. Given the speed email is transmitted these days,
these two dates should be pretty close.
2. If he has a text editor with macro capability, like
Ultraedit, he may use TB's "export to Unix mailbox" function
to export all messages in a folder to a file. The file is
in plain text format, and could be edited with an editor.
Then he may use a macro to change the date with the "actual"
received date. If he is familiar with VBA, he could do it
in MS Word as well, though it's a bit overkill. After that,
he can re-import the messages (as from Unix mailbox, not OE)
again, the TB should show the right date.
I also find it amusing about TB's implementation of this
"received date/time" -- it's the date/time TB fetches the
mail from your server. Instead, some other email client
(like OE) use the date/time the message arrives at your mail
server, as recorded on the header (the "Date:" field).
I don't think either approach is "right" or "wrong". It's
just a matter of preference.
--
Best regards,
Ming-Li
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