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["Wiltshire, David" <address@concealed>]

Hi Wolfgang. Thanks for the reply.

You are correct that I’m referring to the date in the header. You may be 
right about the solution and I’ve just noticed that the Outlook for Mac 2016 
trial that I am using is missing a feature from Outlook 2011. Essentially you 
can display your mailbox by date received but you can’t then also have them 
grouped by conversation. So to display your inbox with messages grouped by 
conversation it seems to only display by the order of the date header.

I’ll do some more hunting around but I still can’t help feeling that it would 
be easier to have the ability to stop that date header or have it update to 
the date Sympa releases the email as that is much easier than attempting to 
control the way 6000+ staff view their email.

Regards
Dave



On 5/06/15 11:11 am, "address@concealed on behalf of 
Wolfgang Zeikat" <address@concealed on behalf of 
address@concealed> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>----- On 5 Jun, 2015, at 00:52, d wiltshire address@concealed wrote:
>
>> The problem is that messages submitted to a Sympa list are time-stamped 
>> when
>> they are received by the Sympa. Upon moderation they then appear in a
>> recipients inbox at the time the message was submitted, rather then the 
>> time
>> it was actually sent.
>
>I have the impression you mean the "Date:" header line by your expression 
>"time-stamped". The Date: line is inserted by the original sending client, 
>which is not the sympa server in most cases. And by "actually sent" you seem 
>to mean what could be regarded as "re-sent by the sympa server".
>
>A workaround to prevent e-mails from being overlooked due to older Date: 
>header lines is to have the reading client sort messages by "Received" and 
>not "Sent" date.
>
>Thunderbird and the Zimbra web GUI support such sorting, MS Outlook too, if 
>I am not mistaken.
>
>In my opinion it is perfectly fine to preserve the original Date: header 
>line and to work around transmission delays (which can also appear on the 
>route from client to sympa server already).
>
>My 0.02 EUR. Hope that helps.
>
>Best regards,
>
>wolfgang
>