Mary,

The time received is recording the time that your ISP received the message.
Depending on how often you retrieve your mail from your "mailbox", this
time difference could be a matter of minutes, days, or weeks.

Jim Meagher
----- Original Message -----
From: "Camerons" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 1:03 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Time of Received Message in Outlook Express


> Hope someone can help....In the past few days, I've noticed that although
my
> system clock is properly set, all my incoming mail messages have an
> incorrect "received" time.....sometimes off by as much as a couple of
hours.
> Even when I send myself a test message, and it comes through in a couple
of
> minutes, the received time shown beside the message is way off.  Any
> suggestions?  Is this MY problem, or a problem at my mail server?
>
> Thanks
> Mary Cameron
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