CreationTime property

[PromisedOyster]

The CreationTime property on the MailItem object is not as I would have
suspected, ie the date/time that the email was created.

The CreationTime is after the sent/received time.

I have tried on a number of different inboxes /versions of Outlook and
get the same result.

Can anyone explain why this is so?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It's the time that the Outlook item was created in the recipients folders.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[PromisedOyster]

Sue

This happens with old emails.

For example:

An email sent 7/6/2004, has a date created of 19/7/2005??

Any ideas what this could be?


I also note that if you put back an item into a folder from the deleted
items, it gets the date that it was created in the folder. (I dont
think this explains the above situation though).

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The item could have been copied, imported, moved (move is a Delete and a Copy at least some of the time), etc.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[rox.scott]

If the CreationTime property is linked to the Windows File CreationTime,
then it could be simply that your file has the same name as an old file.
See http://www.devcity.net/Articles/133/1/article.aspx

--scott