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No day, date, or year on emails in outlook express 6

Jul 21, 2005 11:39PM PDT

When sending or receiving email, outlook express 6 posts no day, date, or year. I am using Windows 2000 pro. all the latest updates. Here is an example of the problem.
DDDD, July DD, YYYY 11:10 PM. The system time and date are set properly.

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Such is not required in emails.
Jul 21, 2005 11:48PM PDT

Some may find it odd that such is not a required field for internet email. Given only what's in your post and what's required for an (internet) email, nothing is wrong here.

Bob

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May not be required,
Jul 21, 2005 11:59PM PDT

It may not be required, but it is a fast way to see when a email is sent or received. It is inportant for me to see this information at a glance.

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Are you talking about the COLUMNS?
Jul 22, 2005 1:10AM PDT

If so, you can right click on the columns and select which you want. But again, nothing in Internet Email standards force me to deliver email with a date and time stamp which does infuriate a certain person who challenged me on this and I sent them a few without the date/time. "This shouldn't be!!!"

Bob

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I guess I am not clear
Jul 22, 2005 2:35AM PDT

I guess I am not clear. The time, day, date, and year stamp is automaticly generated by outlook express on every email you send or receive. Can anyone help? has anyone seen this problem before?

Thanks
Rik M

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Google has good starters...
Jul 22, 2005 3:17AM PDT
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This is not true.
Jul 22, 2005 9:43AM PDT

You claim "The time, day, date, and year stamp is automaticly generated by outlook express on every email you send or receive. Can anyone help? has anyone seen this problem before?"

But Microsoft documents this:
"When you receive Hotmail messages, they may not contain the entire date or time."

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222984

Again, this area is not perfect and any other clue you can provide would help.

Bob