Identifying actual time sent on scheduled messages

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Gern Blandston

Is there a way to determine when a scheduled message was
actually sent by the user? In other words, if a user
creates a message at 3:00PM and then schedules it to be
sent at 11:00PM, is there any way for the recipient or
Exchange administrator to know that it was really sent at
3:00PM?

We've got this person in the office who never seems to
reply to email until after 9:00PM, and we think they
they're scheduling their replies to make them look like
exceptionally hard workers.
 
I know that when Internet protocols are used (POP3/SMTP) the sent time that
you see is when the user submitted the mail for delivery and not when the
message was actually sent. I believe the same holds true for Exchange
accounts.
 
I put in it Ol2003 outbox at 12:15, set to send at 12:30. Using Ex2003,
sending to:

myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.35 $ on Novell
NetWare;
hotmail.com
another exchange server using routing/smtp services
same exchange server

The headers all said:
Subject: I'm sending this at 12:15 for delayed delivery
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 12:30:56 -0400

with no indication of the actual time I sent it to the outbox.

the same exchange server had 12:30 but no headers...

the sent and received fields both have the same time - the time it was
submitted to Ex. for delivery, not the time I hit send.

The copy in my sent box had the outbox time on it - so if they could get him
to forward (not resend) the messages they could compare times unless he's
savvy enough to edit the header time or uses resend instead.

Less honest methods exist to check the sent items, like if he is lax with
locking the workstation.

FWIW, a major complaint I hear often about delayed send is it's using the
time Send is pressed, not the time it's actually sent so maybe it's
different with ol2003. Do not deliver before seems to be working on all
accounts, it didn't always work with older versions.




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