OL97: Imported cc:Mail Folder Messages Show Wrong Year

ID: Q190884

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Outlook 97

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 transport (ccmailse.exe) 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 97. 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 with 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.

Outlook now correctly imports messages from a cc:Mail Post Office dated as late as 2069. This wasn't the case before the SR-2 patch. Note that the problem only occurred when importing folders or bulletin boards, not when sending or receiving mail.

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:

Keywords : kbdta kb2000 CfgCCMail
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug