Copy *.msg files to network drive, but want to keep email date stamp?

[Ceez]

Hello everyone.

Dont know if in the right forum but it's related to emails. Sorry if miss-posted.

I have a user that is picky about archiving particular project emails by copying them to the project network share. They like to be able to reference emails quickly by reading subject lines instead of via pst archiving.

Obviously, when you copy the individual emails to a drive of any kind it will create the Date Modified of whichever date the file was copied to it, ie: copy a file today and your Modified Date field will be: 1/05/2009 @ current time

Now, is it possible to somehow show the actual email date under the Date Modified field of windows explorer? I know it's a long shot and it's obviously a weird end user request and I am 99.99% sure you cant; BUT what are the chances of a .01%

Thanks for reading this strange request.

Cesar

 

[58sniper]

No. You'd be much better off using a dedicated archiving solution, or even moving things to a Public Folder or Sharepoint.

Pat Richard MVP
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[Zelandakh]

Or even a PST which you then close, clone and move.

We don't like PST files as they are bad, but in this case they may be applicable.

 

[58sniper]

There's a LOT of wasted space when you have a lot of small files like that. A third party archiving solution is much better, and provides other features as well.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/