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Problem with email received date

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Good morning, because of error in "Date" column (i have an imap account), i modified "mailnews.customDBHeaders" in config editor to the value Received. I then added "Received" column on the visualization panel, and i have removed "Date" column. Finally, i did a repair folder; the problem is that, when i did this, the "Received" column disappeared and the "date" column come back. What can i do ? Thank you.

Good morning, because of error in "Date" column (i have an imap account), i modified "mailnews.customDBHeaders" in config editor to the value Received. I then added "Received" column on the visualization panel, and i have removed "Date" column. Finally, i did a repair folder; the problem is that, when i did this, the "Received" column disappeared and the "date" column come back. What can i do ? Thank you.

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I forgot: my Thunderbird version is 91.6.1 (32-bit).

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You add Received to the preference mailnews.customDBHeaders in Config. editor, Did you then restart Thunderbird ? You do need to restart Thunderbird at this point. Once restarted then enable the Received column in the Threads Pane, Finally right-click the folder, Properties, Repair Folder, to re-index the Inbox

Modified by Toad-Hall

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Using Windows 10 and TB 91.6.1 (64-bit). In my mailnews.customDBHeaders the Value is all the text shown in next line:

  • Received x-tagtoolbar-keys x-send-later-at x-send-later-uuid x-send-later-recur x-send-later-args
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Hi, i tried also to add all the string above (Received x-tagtoolbar-keys x-send-later-at x-send-later-uuid x-send-later-recur x-send-later-args) but i still have the same problem...... when i repair the folder the old column configuration come back (The column "date" appears, and the column "Received" disappeared). I have alto tried to restart Thunderbird after the modify of mailnews.customDBHeaders

Thank you.