PC Win: Cannot Import or Export Messages Received or Modified After 2019

• Microsoft Mail for Windows, version 3.5

SYMPTOMS

When you import or export messages based on the date they were received or modified, you cannot import or export messages that were received or modified after December 31, 2019. However, if you import or export all messages in a particular folder, messages that were received or modified after this date are successfully imported or exported.

CAUSE

When you specify a date range during an import or export operation, you can only specify a two-digit year. The allowable date range is 1/1/20 to 12/31/19, which is interpreted as 1/1/1920 to 12/31/2019.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem when you are importing messages, import all the messages in the folder that contains the messages you want to import, and then manually delete the messages you did not want to import.

To work around this problem when you are exporting messages, manually copy or move the messages you want to export to a new folder, and then export all the messages from that folder.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Mail for Windows version 3.5.

Additional query words: Y2K

Keywords          : kb2000 MailPCWin 
Version           : WINDOWS:3.5
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: February 28, 1999