Thunderbird Inbox incorrect date display from 1 email address. Can this be fixed?
I have one person whose email address is with plus.com where the date displayed in Thunderbird's Inbox is always incorrect. e.g. Correct date: 4/9/14 is displayed as 01/08/06.
I've checked in Windows Mail and in Gmail where the date is displayed correctly.
Isisombululo esikhethiwe
Thank you for providing the information I requested.
Upon examination I see the Date: header is the one with the wrong date: Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 06:03:52 +0100. This is usually the sending system's time. All the other date headers (Sent:, Received:) are OK and correspond to sending/receiving servers.
I suspect your friend's date / time may be incorrect. Can you ask them to double-check?
It also seems Thunderbird displays or uses that date when it displays a message.
You can change this at View > Sort by > Order Received and also add a new column in the message pane as shown in the attached screen capture.
Perhaps the IMAP received date could also help work around this problem, if the Received date as displayed in the message pane columns turns out incorrect.
As usual, before going any further and trying anything, please make a backup of your profile. Did I mention a backup would be ideal? Oh, and please make a backup of your profile.
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Could you share the full message including headers (but removing personal / private information as needed) here? You can access the message full text source by pressing Ctrl-U while viewing it.
Delivered-To: petrasandslimie@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.136.224 with SMTP id s93csp641298ioi;
Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:24:55 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.194.71.74 with SMTP id s10mr8847827wju.116.1409858694661;
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:24:54 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <mail@jimlevi.plus.com> Received: from avasout04.plus.net (avasout04.plus.net. [212.159.14.19])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id ee7si462158wib.81.2014.09.04.12.24.53 for <petrasandslimie@gmail.com>; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:24:54 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: none (google.com: mail@jimlevi.plus.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) client-ip=212.159.14.19; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=neutral (google.com: mail@jimlevi.plus.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) smtp.mail=mail@jimlevi.plus.com
Received: from jim989vcjqyby ([87.114.91.79]) by avasout04 with smtp id n7Qr1o0041ijrRB017QtTf; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:24:53 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=Uv7tNoAB c=1 sm=1 tr=0
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Message-ID: <5E6A9784E923492585E56B02AC3CC48B@jim989vcjqyby> Reply-To: "jim Levi" <mail@jimlevi.plus.com> From: "jim Levi" <mail@jimlevi.plus.com> To: Address list removed Subject: Fw: Good joke from Susan Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 06:03:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0011_01C6B530.43DFB5B0"; type="multipart/alternative" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157
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From: Susan Schwartz=20 To: jim Levi ; Louise Kupritz=20 Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 1:34 PM Subject: Good joke from Susan
Isisombululo Esikhethiwe
Thank you for providing the information I requested.
Upon examination I see the Date: header is the one with the wrong date: Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 06:03:52 +0100. This is usually the sending system's time. All the other date headers (Sent:, Received:) are OK and correspond to sending/receiving servers.
I suspect your friend's date / time may be incorrect. Can you ask them to double-check?
It also seems Thunderbird displays or uses that date when it displays a message.
You can change this at View > Sort by > Order Received and also add a new column in the message pane as shown in the attached screen capture.
Perhaps the IMAP received date could also help work around this problem, if the Received date as displayed in the message pane columns turns out incorrect.
As usual, before going any further and trying anything, please make a backup of your profile. Did I mention a backup would be ideal? Oh, and please make a backup of your profile.
Many thanks. The IMAP Received Date add-on has solved this for me. Getting the date corrected on the sender's machine is not really an option. It's a lady in her 80's far away from me!
I am glad to hear that your problem has been resolved. Thank you for selecting the answer that solved the problem. This will help other users with similar problems find the solution more easily.
Regarding the date on the sender's system, keep in mind this will probably be problematic for other recipients as well, it may be useful to keep a bookmark to this thread for other Thunderbird users.