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The date/time on the email header is wrong

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I received an email where the date and time shown in Thunderbird is incorrect by over a year. The date and time shown is "10/1/2018, 8:54 PM". If I do Ctrl+U to look at the email source in Thunderbird it says "Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:35:14 -0700 (PDT)". My timezone is MDT.

I received an email where the date and time shown in Thunderbird is incorrect by over a year. The date and time shown is "10/1/2018, 8:54 PM". If I do Ctrl+U to look at the email source in Thunderbird it says "Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:35:14 -0700 (PDT)". My timezone is MDT.
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Suggest you first check to see if the index needs fixing.

  • Right click on folder that contains the email with wrong date and select 'Properties'
  • click on 'Repair folder' button
  • click on OK

select another folder and then reselect original folder with email.

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I tried those steps but the email header still has the wrong date. When sorting my inbox by date, the email is sorted according to the wrong date as well.

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Is this only happening to only that one email or are you seeing this problem in a lot or all of the emails ?

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I've only seen it on one email.

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I have a similar problem: emails without Date: headers get a TBird meta-header of whenever the email landed in that folder. I run four copies of TBird, so the same message will sort into different places in the message list on each copy, and if I move the message to another folder, the meta-date changes to when it landed in the new folder.