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Sorting emails by received not sent

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pvoytas
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Hi,

I use Thunderbird (version 102.10 as of now) with the DAVMAIL utility (version 6.1.0-3423 https://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/ ) for my Office 365 email account. It seems that recently (last month or so?) I have the issue that when someone uses Outlook's delayed-send option to send me an email, it shows up in my Thunderbird INBOX by the sent date, not the received date. I tried changing columns from "DATE" to "RECEIVED" but that did not fix the issue. Using "ORDER RECEIVED" is a little better, but seems to move other messages around in ways that don't make sense either.

Any help is much appreciated.

Hi, I use Thunderbird (version 102.10 as of now) with the DAVMAIL utility (version 6.1.0-3423 https://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/ ) for my Office 365 email account. It seems that recently (last month or so?) I have the issue that when someone uses Outlook's delayed-send option to send me an email, it shows up in my Thunderbird INBOX by the sent date, not the received date. I tried changing columns from "DATE" to "RECEIVED" but that did not fix the issue. Using "ORDER RECEIVED" is a little better, but seems to move other messages around in ways that don't make sense either. Any help is much appreciated.

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david
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I noticed that DAVMAIL was updated just a month ago. Could this be a possible cause?

pvoytas
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I think that isn't it: A colleague with a similar setup to mine but with version 5.4.0-3135 of DAVMAIL (2 yrs old) has the same problem of sorting by sent date.

david
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Okay, I cannot say whether that is a DAVMAIL issue or a Thunderbird one. It appears that Thunderbird interprets the data differently.

pvoytas
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Looking at the header of an email I sent to myself with the delayed send feature of Outlook, I see a field listed as "DATE" which includes the time I wrote the message:

Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 18:05:16 +0000

In the first set of fields of the header is where the received time seems to be;

Received: from <stuff I deleted>.outlook.com <more stuff I deleted> by <more stuff>namprd04.prod.outlook.com with HTTPS; Sat, 29 Apr 2023 22:00:13 +0000

Outlook parses this all fine and displays by received date/time.

If it is a Thunderbird issue, it seems likely that it is not extracting the date/time from this part of the header. This makes me wonder what Thunderbird is looking for to put in the "Received" column (which shows the same sent time that the "Date" column shows) in the message list pane. It may well be DAVMAIL, but I'd like to help the maintainers there fix it if it is...