[X-Apps] Mail help - Out timestamp issues

[Gretchen Hayman]

On Monday, Jul 28, 2003, at 14:58 US/Central, Gretchen Hayman wrote:

> I've been using Mail since it was released and have had a fairly good 
> experience with it.  Until today.  Today, as I was attempting to find 
> an e-mail I sent on a specific date, the timestamp on ALL of the 
> messages in my Out box changed to today's date and time.  I had 
> clicked on the little "sort by date" triangle (it always seems to want 
> to put the most recent at the top and I want them at the bottom) and 
> *poof* 3007 messages suddenly had the wrong timestamp!  They also all 
> show as unread.  I rebuilt the mailbox, but it's still screwed up.  I 
> quit & relaunched Mail, then rebuilt the mailbox.  Still no joy.  I 
> marked them all as read, then again rebuilt the Mailbox.  Now they all 
> show up again as unread.

Ack!  Never send in haste.  ^_^;

More info/clarification:

I see now that this strange Out box is not the same as my Sent box.  
But all of the messages in it are stamped with the current time/date, 
so something strange going on in any case, just not nearly as 
earth-shattering as I thought it was.

Timestamps keep updating and all messages keep being marked as unread.  
I maintain our mail server as well; this mailbox definitely doesn't 
exist on the server (linux-based, not Windows), so it doesn't appear to 
be a server-related cause updating the timestamps/read status.

Just repaired permissions, then repaired mailbox and still no dice.  
Very very strange!  Something to add to my "things to figure out" list.

gretchen