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    Windows Mail (Vista) and Date Received?
    « on: February 19, 2020, 03:38:58 PM »
    Windows Mail (Vista) stores e-mail messages in folders as .eml files (one file per message). I understand the same is true of Windows Live Mail.  Now, an .eml file does not usually store, in the message headers, the date received for the message (the "Delivery-date" header is optional and generally absent).

    Nevertheless, when Windows Mail (Vista) is run, and the table of messages appears, the date received is shown in the table. Presumably it is recorded by the program when the message is received.  But it is (generally) not part of the data in the .eml file itself.  So where does Windows Mail (Vista) store the received dates?

    This question arises when e-mails are exported from Windows Mail (Vista) to another client.  The particular client I am now using (in Win 10) supports import from Outlook, Thunderbird, etc. but not from Windows Mail Vista, or from Windows Live Mail.  For these it only imports .eml messages, and so it cannot know the received dates but simply sets them the same as the sent dates ("delivery-date", if present, is ignored).  Where should it be looking to find the real received dates, as stored by Windows Mail (Vista)?