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Just installed thunderbird and dates are not appearing on emails received and not in order

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I have just installed firefox and thunderbird on new computer and used my exisitng email accounts. Made sure system set to imap and all past emails were shown but new emails do not have the date and are not shown in correct order and even time is incorrect -can anyone assist please Many thanks Tim

I have just installed firefox and thunderbird on new computer and used my exisitng email accounts. Made sure system set to imap and all past emails were shown but new emails do not have the date and are not shown in correct order and even time is incorrect -can anyone assist please Many thanks Tim

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You say "new" emails…

Thunderbird's default behaviour is to show today's messages with just the time, and all other messages with both date and time. Is this what you see?

It can be changed, as described here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format

I found the truncated time-only format is actually helpful (once you understand what's going on) as it makes identification of recent messages very easy when using any sorting or presentation that doesn't preserve date /time order.

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தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது

You say "new" emails…

Thunderbird's default behaviour is to show today's messages with just the time, and all other messages with both date and time. Is this what you see?

It can be changed, as described here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format

I found the truncated time-only format is actually helpful (once you understand what's going on) as it makes identification of recent messages very easy when using any sorting or presentation that doesn't preserve date /time order.

Many thanks - I have found what I need to do but will try leaving the emails as they are for time being as you suggest and see how I get on

Cheers Tim