email questions

[Gabzor]

client of mine messed up his outlook settings, and i did contact yahoo, they said they will try to restore it after more info..

i also tried googling and used thunderbird to restore his lost pop3 using an addon called "redirect"

then i realized that i can just drag his pop3 stuff into imap.mail.yahoo.com and it would do the same thing as redirect..

its about 600 emails.. but heres the funny part.. idealy, i used redirect because its supposed to go in you're inbox to the original header info in the message.. doesn't work.. i get new emails from the same email i used with a new header options, new time and date.

but funny thing is when i put em in the trash bin, they are ALL original header info..

and in outlook for some reason it says december 1969 on all of them..

will the IMAP server eventually read the original info and sync back to it so if i move it back to the inbox its as good as before?

(when i move the emails from the trash can to another folder, it says SENT TODAY..

its pretty frustrating for the client as he is a cpa, but he's a good guy.. so hopefully i can get it figured out..


here is the "full header info option" i will bleep the important things to protect the customer's privacy.

From <imap-client> Tue Aug 21 09:17:26 2012 -0700
Return-Path: <xxxx@gmail.com>
From: "xxxx" <xxxx@gmail.com>
To: "yyyy" <yyyy@yahoo.com>
Subject: xyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyx
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:17:21 -0700 <---- original time and date :/
Message-ID: <CAA1iYBhuABoC3YR7L5tHMFTuPxiw+2Xst7nK6XqgFKh47YvdGA@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0E33_01CD9F90.0CBCA8D0"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
Thread-Index: Ac1/uHIuuvzDBZBLSB2oZctP6W85PQ==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17514
X-OlkEid: 19842321AB623BD6B3965C4C973BD86978E73DCF
Content-Length: 2505623

thanks fellow technibblers

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

No matter how many times I read it, I don't understand.

 

[drpcfix]

Yeah, this is a little confusing - but...

It sounds like thunderbird specific - dates don't get funky like this in Outlook.

here is some generic advice;

• When moving a lot of email, use export/import - not drag
• when re-populating an imap server from a backup, use export/import and let it sync on it's own
• When someone has a need for email to stay in sync, and they are a business, move them to exchange

None of this is really relevant in thunderbird I suppose - not sure how it handles anything.. this is OUTLOOK related

Just move them to Outlook and office 365..

have fun

 

[Gabzor]

well i can't use import/export because i wanted it on the IMAP server, (yahoo.com)

dates are funky in outlook for some reason, only the trash displays correct days

problem is he doesn't want to pay for exchange haha and he doesn't want to upgrade outlook either, as he is still using ACT 6.0 for his CRM