Date of email .msg coming in as 01/01/0001

Aspose.Email Product Family
1

Hello,


I am using Aspose.Network 5.1.0.0 (2010.03.25) and loading in a .msg file from the filesystem. The date of the email is coming in as 01/01/0001. I am using Windows 7 (32 bit) and Outlook 2007 . The date comes in correctly in a previous version of Aspose. It is also working for a colleague with 64 bit Windows 7.

Code:

Aspose.Network.License lic = new Aspose.Network.License();
lic.SetLicense(@“Aspose.Total.lic”);

MailMessage msg = MailMessage.Load(@“Test.msg”);
DateTime date = msg.Date;

This happens with all emails I attempt. If you cannot reproduce this I can send you a sample.

Thanks
James
2

Hi James,

Could you please specify the format of message in MailMessage constructor. The above code will show date as 01/01/0001 because email is not loaded correctly in MailMessage class. The default format is eml.

It will work if you change the code as
MailMessage msg = MailMessage.Load(@“Test.msg”, MessageFormat.Msg);

3

Hello,


I am working in the same company and was previously recommended to use the following code to fix a date related issue…

Aspose.Network.Mail.MailMessage.Load(“Msg.msg”, Aspose.Network.Mail.FileCompatibilityMode.MostCompatible);

This code is working on my machine (Win 7 Pro) and failing on Jame’s machine (Win 7 Pro also).

Surely there must be a consistent mechanism to get this working. Can you please explain how to get this working on all machines?

Kind regards,
JP
4

Hi,

FileCompatibilityMode.MostCompatible argument in the constructor was introduced to fix Subject related issues for “eml” files only.

All the below statements can load eml files correctly:
MailMessage msg = MailMessage.Load(“test.eml”, FileCompatibilityMode.MostCompatible);
MailMessage msg = MailMessage.Load(“test.eml”);
MailMessage msg = MailMessage.Load(“test.eml”, MessageFormat.Eml);

But for loading msg files, MessageFormat.Msg must be passed as an argument as below:
MailMessage msg = MailMessage.Load(“test.msg”, MessageFormat.Msg);