I am an Officer and emailed a message using MS Outlook 2010 to a colleague at 08:00 AM on 30.09.2014 for a meeting at 10:00 AM on the same. When he did not attend the meeting and I inquired, he replied that he has not received the message in time for the meeting. Annoyed, I opened his message in his own desktop (also using MS Outlook 2010) and while verifying the file properties (not email header but properties) of the message, I see the following details in the dialog box:
Sent : 30/09/2014 08:00 AM
Received: 30/09/2014 08:00 AM
Modified: 30/09/2014 11:00 AM
I also verified that he has not done any modifications to the file. I verified some other messages received by him up to 11:00 AM on that day and they all show Modified time different from Received time. After 11:00 AM, both Received and Modified show the same time.
He claim that he was out office till 11:00 AM and switched on his computer and MS Outlook at 11:00 AM only and only then the mail got downloaded into his system quoting the time under Modified.
Is it true that Modified represents the time the message downloaded into (.pst) folder of MS Outlook on his desktop? How come Received & Modified times could be different?
We are using our own company mail server. Is there any other way to find the exact time of downloading mails into (.pst) file?