Strange mail date problem with outlook

kardiac kardiac_list at krystalia.net
Mon Nov 8 06:28:48 EST 2004


Ok,

 After more search, it was a problem with INTERNALDATE field. I needed 
to suppress cyrus.index file and reconstruct mailbox to correct 
problem.  It will worked first time if i have used --syncinternaldates 
flag in imapsync.

Kardiac

Darrell Berry wrote:

> i can't remeber the answer but its been asked before and answered -- 
> if no one gets back to you, it will be out there on google somewhere 
> -- sorry i can't remember what the problem was, but its an outlook 
> 'oddity' and there's a simple hack to the migration script to fit it...
>
> kardiac wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>    I have migrated all mail on my server to cyrus-imap with imapsync 
>> tool. All has worked perfectly on server and on most mail clients. 
>> But on Outlook 2002 and 2003, all mail migrated have date set to 
>> migration day but are sort by original mail date. I have run a little 
>> perl script on mail server to set file date to date entry  in  mail 
>> but that didn't change anything( i would be surprised if that's 
>> worked). Someone has a explanation for this problem and/or know how 
>> to correct this problem ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kardiac
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