Mail date problem (date received)

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Mail date problem (date received)

Hi there,

Mail.app displays the same "date received" for ALL of my messages I downloaded from an IMAP server. The date shows always the fifth of a month (for example 5. January 2008 or 5. March 2008).

It seems to me as if Mail does not care about the date in the header of the mail. In fact it gets the wrong date from elsewhere.

This seems to be a bug. What can I do? Any ideas?

Thanks you very much!

iMac 24", Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 25, 2008 8:21 AM

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Mar 25, 2008 8:32 AM in response to apfelapple

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions,

I have never seen this issue. Please provide more information. Messages are only downloaded from an IMAP server if set to do so in Mail Preferences/Accounts/Advanced, then this is only to allow viewing when not Online. Otherwise when you view the Inbox, you are viewing them as they reside on the server, and then if you open one particular message, its content is then downloaded. Otherwise the headers of the emails on the server are coming from the server each time you open Mail. What are your settings in that section of Mail Preferences?

Ernie

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Mar 25, 2008 3:57 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

Hi Ernie,

thanks for the really fast reply!

I set the options to keep a copy of mails for viewing offline, including all attachments. I double checked it again and really ALL mails have the received date set to the fifth of a month. It reads like:

5. december 1996
5. december 1996
5. december 1996
5. january 2000
5. january 2000
5. january 2000
5. january 2000
5. march 2008
5. march 2008

and so on. Not a single mail has its origin date set. All the folders are local folders (not on the imap server). So I drop my assumption that it could be an issue related to imap. That is because a lot of the mails in the folder are older. I received them before I used imap as protocol (i used pop3).

One last thing. There are a hand full of mails dated to "Yesterday". But it is certain they read tomorrow as received at "5. march 2008".

Weird. No clue. Help!

Thank you!

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Answer 3

Mar 25, 2008 7:02 PM in response to apfelapple

What are the dates for those messages that are on the server, in the IMAP account's Inbox?

Ernie

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apfelapple Author

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Mar 26, 2008 1:04 AM in response to Ernie Stamper

Hi again,

they are different. One reads "Today" and another reads "24.03.08".

Remember: most of the messages I not touched for years. They had the correct before for sure. Now messages from years back, say from year 2001, are dated to the fifth of a month.

Do you have any clue? This seems to be really strange.

Merci!

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Mar 26, 2008 1:17 AM in response to Ernie Stamper

... just another thing, that makes me crazy and I figured out just a minute ago ...

I am unable to set a birthday date in iCal to another than - surprise, surprise - the fifth of a month!!

If I enter "06/06/1975" and hit tab key to jump to the next field, the date gets immediately set to "5. June 1975".

THIS is buggy, isn't it. Wow.

Does that help?

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apfelapple Author

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Mar 26, 2008 1:20 AM in response to Ernie Stamper

Wohooo Ernie,

got it!

I had the date format (mis-)customized somehow in System Preferences. I set it now to in the international pane back to my region (Germany) and tadaaa... dates are back!

I will never do that again, I promise 😉

Thank you very much!

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apfelapple Author

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Mar 26, 2008 1:20 AM in response to apfelapple

Solution in the last post of thread

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