Instead of importing with Outlook, export from Outlook Express; doing so
preserves the dates. OE's export works much better on email data than does
Outlook's import. By contrast, Outlook does a better job of importing
contacts from OE than OE does at exporting them to Outlook.
Hal
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"Jim B" <JimB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> One of the annoying "features" of Outlook is that when importing mail from
> Outlook Express, the default sort date is the date when the importing took
> place, not the original date received. What I would really like to do is
> have all mail sorted by the original date SENT. Is there a registry hack
> that would allow me to do this? Or at the minimum, allow me to sort all
> mail
> by original date received.
>
> I know I can go to each folder and set them individually, but when you
> have
> several dozen folders (or more), this can be a real pain in the . . . !
> --
> The Computer Doctor