When you import, the 'received' date is the date of the import - that's when
this particular database received that message. That's as intended, but can
be inconvenient.
In the 'old style' folder listing, where the columns go right across the
page (preview pane 'none' or 'below') it is easy enough to set the columns
to display only the sent date and have accurate dates showing. In the
'preview pane on right' view, this can't be done (except in 'sent mail'
folders)
Try running this script, which _should_ setthe received date to the date of
the first 'received' header in the email, which is about as close as
possible to the time the message was originally received by you)
-- Correct the date v1.0 25th June 2002
-- a script for Microsoft Entourage by Barry Wainwright
-- Resets the date of messages to the date of the first received header
-- useful for messages with badly formatted (or just plain wrong) dates
-- This script released under a Creative Commons Attribution, NonCommercial,
ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License.
-- see <
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/> for full
details
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theMessages to current messages
if theMessages is {} then
display dialog "No messages selected!" buttons {"Stop"} default
button 1 with icon stop
return -99
end if
repeat with theMess in theMessages
set theHeaders to the headers of theMess
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return & space}
set theHeaders to text items of theHeaders
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {space}
set theHeaders to theHeaders as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return & tab}
set theHeaders to text items of theHeaders
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {space}
set theHeaders to theHeaders as string
set theHeaders to the paragraphs of theHeaders
set receivedHeader to ""
repeat with aHeader in theHeaders
if aHeader starts with "Received:" then copy contents of aHeader
to receivedHeader
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {";"}
set theDate to (last text item of receivedHeader)
set time received of theMess to date theDate
end repeat
end tell
Save the script as a compiled script & put it in the ŒEntourage Script Menu
Items¹ folder in your ŒMicrosoft User Data¹ folder. The script can be
manually run from the menu or called as an action in a mail rule.
--
BarryW
Microsoft MVP (see
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp for details)
Visit the Entourage User's Weblog for hints tips & troubleshooting for
Microsoft entourage:
http://www.barryw.net/weblog
From: shambolic <
[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 05:24:00 -0700
Subject: sent/receive dates swapped on imported mail
i'm moving mail between identities in Entourage 2004, and when imporrting
messages to my new mail box, the received date becomes the sent date, and
the
sent date becomes today (i.e. the time of importing). since i often sort
mail by received date, it's a massive inconvenience to have these two
swapped, and it creates a discontinuity with the mail i've been recieving,
which is still stamped by received date.
does anyone have an idea about how i could a) preserve the received date
through the export and import process (i've tried exporting to .rge file and
dragging to desktop) or b) swapping the two timestamps so that the right
date
is in Recieved for all mails...
many thanks for any help in the matter!
