Outlook 2003 question

[edong]

Three times this happened. There is a spam mail with prior years as "Date Received." One is 1998 and the other is 2003. Is this possible to override the dating system of Outlook? Spybot S & D and AVG came up with nothing.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

It's not Outlook that is generating those dates.
It's the mail server.

[Ai Haibara]

Actually, it's supposedly a spammer tactic, from what I've seen - one that either drives the mail to the top of your list (if you're sorting by early-to-present date)... or buries it somewhere else in your mailbox. Or maybe they have a different reason for doing it, I'm not sure. Maybe the vain hope that anti-spam measures won't work on mail 'from the past?'

[edong]

Kind of neat trick to learn. Would come handy if I want to ante-date an e-mail which I forgot to send. I could just blame the recepient for not opening the e-mail Thanks, guys.