Email Time Display in Outlook Express

In Outlook Express The Time displayed for each email (under recieved
column) does it denote the time the email was sent by sender from their
PC or when it arrived at their ISP server or time it was received by
receiving ISP server?

Its definitely not the time when it arrives on my PC? Its especially
confusing when it was sent from abroad

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Many Thanks

Gunjani

That's a good question. I will help you solve it
yourself.

- select an email message.
- click File Properties.
- You will now see where the e-mail traveled to get to
you.
- each delivery point has a time stamp.

Glad to help out,

Christopher.
-----Original Message-----
In Outlook Express The Time displayed for each email
(under recieved
column) does it denote the time the email was sent by
sender from their
PC or when it arrived at their ISP server or time it was
received by
receiving ISP server?

Its definitely not the time when it arrives on my PC?
Its especially
confusing when it was sent from abroad

--
Many Thanks

Gunjani

.

And I might add, that unless one of the ISP's is having problems, it
should take only seconds to reach you. If the time is way off, the
sender's clock, or time zone, is probably not set correctly. Even
from overseas, the time displayed should be *very* close to the time
you receive it.
--
Bruce Hagen
~IB-CA~


"Christopher Malone" wrote in message
...
That's a good question. I will help you solve it
yourself.

- select an email message.
- click File Properties.
- You will now see where the e-mail traveled to get to
you.
- each delivery point has a time stamp.

Glad to help out,

Christopher.
-----Original Message-----
In Outlook Express The Time displayed for each email
(under recieved
column) does it denote the time the email was sent by
sender from their
PC or when it arrived at their ISP server or time it was
received by
receiving ISP server?

Its definitely not the time when it arrives on my PC?
Its especially
confusing when it was sent from abroad

--
Many Thanks

Gunjani

.

Gunjani,
In OE Header Pane Right-click Subject Column Check the box "Sent" =
Move up/down that selection so it is above Received Column.

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"Gunjani" wrote in message =
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In Outlook Express The Time displayed for each email (under recieved=20
column) does it denote the time the email was sent by sender from their=20
PC or when it arrived at their ISP server or time it was received by=20
receiving ISP server?

Its definitely not the time when it arrives on my PC? Its especially=20
confusing when it was sent from abroad

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Many Thanks

Gunjani

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 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 last 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 when he transmitted it. 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 Win95/98 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


"Gunjani" wrote in message
m...
In Outlook Express The Time displayed for each email (under recieved
column) does it denote the time the email was sent by sender from their
PC or when it arrived at their ISP server or time it was received by
receiving ISP server?

Its definitely not the time when it arrives on my PC? Its especially
confusing when it was sent from abroad

--
Many Thanks

Gunjani