Ok I know this is kinda of an off the wall question, but i need to email someone with a timestamp from a different date and make sure it will show up in their email with that date. Can anyone please explain how to do this? I set up postcast server and reset my computer date. After testing it, it showed up with the current date and time in my email inbox, but showed it as being sent on the date i needed. I know its possible to make an email show up with a certain date in the inbox, I just need someone to explain how? I know that someone on afterdawn can answer this question. THANKS.
Honestly.. I don't think it's possible, because the recieving mailserver timestamps the message at the time of arrival. Most mailservers are synchronised to timeservers on the net. I may be wrong, but I think the best you can hope for is to change the send date the way you have worked out, and hope the other end understand that things can hang around for a few days in transit. If it's a business they will check and delete/archive mail every day anyway, so they will spot a wrongly date stamped inbox mail, and probably investigate the mailserver for intrusion attempts. ( I tried this on on one of my mailservers and as far as I can tell..without modifying the time software and killing the time synchronistaion it doesn't work...and there is another thing about this.. Mail is held in recieved sequence, on my mailserver anyway, regardless of it's supposed arrival time. It stands out like a sore thumb in the lists.)
I looked and within the yahoo email header details it shows: X-Apparently-To: email@yahoo.com via 68.142.200.46; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:15:54 Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2037 20:17:13 -0800 When my inbox is open, it shows the message as Nov 22 2037. I would like my email to appear with the date I need the way this one does. Does it depend on the server for what date gets shown?
Ok so I tested it out and yahoo does show the "fictional date" not the actual date. I also went onto the mail server that my recipient will probably use to open my email and it shows the date i need. I guess it depends on the email server cause I opened a test up in outlook and it showed the real date and the sent date within the email as the fictional date. Thanks for all your guys help.
No probs..glad to be of any help I can.. That's interesting info about the yahoo mail servers. Stored for future reference.. Thanks.
