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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Posted At: Saturday, April 24, 2004 7:39 AM
Posted To: swynk
Conversation: Migrated Mail dates incorrect
Subject: RE: Migrated Mail dates incorrect

Thanks Andy.

Managed to code something up to do it, seems to work quite well.  Only
problem is the d%&m outlook security dialog popping up every 10 minutes,
but thats a minor annoyance.

Cheers

Glenn

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 11:35, Webb, Andy wrote:
> You're going to have to write code whichever way you decide to deal
with this (if at all).
> 
> You could write code that fixes it once in Exchange using any number
of interfaces to read the smtp header, then update the received date.
> 
> You could do a two step migration and write code that parsed through
the IFF format files and grabbed the received date off the item body
(not the message body, rather the smtp header which is stored in the
"body" portion of the .SEC file of the IFF set) and restamp the header
in the .PRI file.
> 
> You could probably come up with other ways to skin the cat too.  Read
the items into a PST from the IMAP server, then use exmerge to migrate
the data into a mailbox, or drag&drop to get it into public folders. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn
Corbett
> Posted At: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:21 PM
> Posted To: Microsoft Exchange
> Conversation: Migrated Mail dates incorrect
> Subject: RE: Migrated Mail dates incorrect
> 
> 
> Thanks Andy.
> 
> *sigh* not quite what I wanted to hear, but been playing since I
posted the message, and looks like this might be the only way to do it
(if its even possible).
> 
> Oh well, only about 10-20 million messages to rewrite *grin*
> 
> Glenn
> 
> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 23:31, David, Andy wrote:
> > Hmm, Im thinking there is not. 
> > You could always start here <g> : 
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=194870
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 6:06 AM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: Migrated Mail dates incorrect
> > 
> > All,
> > 
> > Haven't asked questions for a while, must be a good sign *grin*
> > 
> > I have been migrating a bunch of mail from an external system using 
> > the Exchange IMAP 4 interface, and have stumbled across an issue I 
> > hope someone can help me with.
> > 
> > When mail is migrated into an Exchange 2003 public folder or
mailbox, 
> > the Sent, Received, and Modified fields of the migrated message are 
> > the date it was created on the Exchange system (understandable).  
> > However, the Internet Mail Headers of the message list the Date:
field 
> > with the correct time and GMT offset of the original message.  Is
there a way to:
> > a) Force Exchange to use this Date field as (at a minimum) the 
> > Received date of the message so that messages appear correctly, or
> > b) Rewrite the date fields in the messages already there, using the 
> > Date field from the message header ?
> > 
> > Basically all migrated messages need to have the date / time of the 
> > original message, as its quite confusing for the users to have all 
> > messages in their public folders and mailboxes having the same date 
> > and time (within a couple of minutes of each other at least).
> > 
> > Hope this makes some sort of sense.
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > Glenn Corbett
> >


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