OL98: (CW) Imported cc:Mail Folder Messages Show Wrong Year

ID: Q190629

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Outlook 98

NOTE: These procedures only apply if you have installed Outlook with the Corporate or Workgroup option. This option allows you to use Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) services. To determine your installation type, on the Help Menu click About Microsoft Outlook. In About Microsoft Outlook you should see "Corporate or Workgroup" if you have the Corporate or Workgroup installation.

SYMPTOMS

Messages sent after the year 2000 in folders or bulletin boards imported from cc:Mail show the incorrect date.

RESOLUTION

Download the latest cc:Mail (ccmailsp.exe) transport for English from our Web site at:

http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloadDetails/ccmailsp.htm

This file is included in the English version of Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).

International versions of this file are available for the following languages:

Other international versions of the file will be available in the near future.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Outlook 98. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2.

MORE INFORMATION

Messages sent after the year 2000 and imported from the cc:Mail Post Office in a Folder or a Bulletin Board will show an incorrect date after the import. Messages sent or received by Outlook through a cc:Mail server, during any operation other than a Folder import or a Bulletin Board import, will show the correct date.

The new version of the cc:Mail support files contained in ccmailsp.exe (ccmailNT.exe for NT 3.51) corrects this problem.

Outlook imports messages from a cc:Mail Post Office using a utility called Export.exe. Export.exe outputs an ASCII file containing all exported messages, including a two-digit year for each message. Previously, Outlook interpreted the dates as 19xx, where xx represents the two-digit year in the Export.exe output file. Currently, if xx is less than 70, the year is imported as 2000 + the year. Otherwise, the year is imported as 1900 + the year. This means Outlook supports cc:Mail import dates up to the year 2069.

cc:Mail is manufactured by Lotus, a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability.

Additional query words: 98 foreign

Keywords : kbdta kb2000 CfgCCMail
Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug