The display of the Top Level message’s date and time is by design.

Consider as an example Figure 1 where an email message contains an attachment which is another email message having an older date.

Figure 1: Example email with an older email as an attachment.

 The Email “Test Today 23 Feb 2012 -2” as shown in Figure 1 contains another message, ”Test Today-27 Dec 2011”, as a attachment as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Sample email showing the atteched email message.

The Details of both sample emails:

1.    Subject: “Test Today 23 Feb 2012 -2”. Sent Date: Thu 2/23/2012 5:19 PM.

2.    Subject: “Test Today-27 Dec 2011”. Sent Date: Wed 12/28/2011 7:38 PM.

An Accelerator search performed with the search criteria “Test Today 23 Feb 2012 -2”  will capture the message containing the attachment.  The Preview of the message would be as shown in Figure 3 (examples below are from DA).

Figure 3: Preview of the top level sample message.

Clicking the email in the “Review” section shows the preview of the message showing the date & time of that message.  When the email attachment is clicked, the date & time of the attached email is not displayed, but the “Top level message” date & time is displayed.

As per Figure 3, the Date & Time of the Email “Test Today 23 Feb 2012 -2” is displayed correctly as “Date : Thu 2/23/2012 5:10 PM”.  After clicking on the attached Email - “Test Today-27 Dec 2011” - the Date & Time shown is “Date : Thu 2/23/2012 5:12 PM”, which is not the Date & Time of the attached message, as shown in Figure 4.  The Date & Time of the attached message is “Date : Wed 12/28/2011 7:38 PM”.

Figure 4: Preview of the attached message.

As per Figure 4, the attachment message Date & Time is shows to be the same as the Top Level Message.