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Hello. <edit> see my 2nd but last posting in this thread to find a script doing the following Create a GUI with a "file drag drop enabled" input control.When Outlook Emails are saved to disk a *.MSG file is created. When such MSG file(s) are draged on this input control, the "receive date" is retrieved from the MSG file, with the use of OutlookEX (UDF written by "water").The MSG file's timestamp (last modified) is set to the retrieved "receive date", so that the FS timestamp reflects the point of time, this email was originally received.Dropping multiple MSG files within one drag & drop operation is supported.Files not matching the naming scheme *.MSG are ignored.Folders are ignored.Limitations: To retrieve the "receive date", OutlookEX has to open the MSG file using OUTLOOK.EXE. That's opening a window. It's immediately minimized, but will "flicker" on your screen for a very short time.I do not check, if this *.MSG file REALLY IS a Outlook saved file (no file format error handling). Thanks to water for OutlookEX and the patient help to get this running. </edit> First of all, this is what I shall do: A coworker is saving important emails (Outlook 2010, Exchange 2010) to file system folders from time to time. The resulting MSG files have a timestamp reflecting the point of time, the emails were saved to disk. He asked me to write a script to touch these files in a manner, that the "last modified" timestamp is set to the point of time that email was originally received. So now I'd like to extract from these Outlook 2010 *.MSG files the "received" timestamp and desperately fail to understand the MSG files' structure. [MS-OXMSG] is a description of the file format of MSG files, hm, I don't get it I'm aware of the UDFs Outlook and OutlookEX, but didn't get either if they might be helpful to handle MSG saved email files. Maybe there is a command line tool that's processing MSG files in the same style like EML_PROCESS? Any suggestions appreciated. Regards, Rudi.