Email timestamps are messed up...

Factual Questions
1

…and I haven’t fooled around with my MS Outlook settings, so is there something else causing this, that I could actually fix?

Email timestamps for the past three days have shown that I’ve received these emails April 4-5, 2001. Time of day appears to be random (or at least not sequential). I’ve already emailed my mail hosts asking about it, but still haven’t gotten a response… grrr.

headers:

Return-Path: <xxx@xxx.ORG>
Received: from liz.worldwit.org ([209.74.136.104])
by durga.drak.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id f35N58OS031494
for <xxx@xxxx.COM>; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 19:05:14 -0400
Message-Id: <200104052305.f35N58OS031494@durga.drak.net>
Received: (qmail 16472 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2004 22:44:09 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO liz.worldwit.org) (127.0.0.1)
by localhost with SMTP; 3 Feb 2004 22:44:09 -0000
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:44:09 -0600
Reply-To: ChicWITJobs <xxx@xxx.ORG>
Sender: ChicWITJobs <xxx@xxx.ORG>
From: Automatic digest processor <xxx@xxx.ORG>
Subject: CHICWITJOBS Digest - 2 Feb 2004 to 3 Feb 2004 - Special issue (#2004-33)
To: Recipients of CHICWITJOBS digests <xxx@xxx.ORG>
Precedence: list
Status:
So is this a problem with Durga (my mail server) or with me?

2

It’s a problem with the clock of the computer on which your correspondent’s mail client resides. The mail servers in between will leave the timestamp created by the originating mail client untouched.

Just today I got an e-mail from a colleague whose mail client, Apple Mail, marked the time of sending as 11 January 1970.

3

I’d buy that if only certain emails from specific senders were coming in with a faulty timestamp – but they ALL are. Did the rest of the world suddenly time-warp back to April 2001?