Feature Request - For imported emails, Note Created date should match date of Email

[TW 1]

As business users, we would love to be able to archive emails into notebooks for our clients.  Presently, when we move emails into Evernote, no matter by which means (direct email, or any of the various plugins like Office 365 or Google Apps), the created date of the note does not match the actual date of the email.  And there is no way to sort by the actual date of the email.  Thus, unless we move the email over contemporaneously, it has the wrong date on the resulting note.  For this reason, we cannot adopt company-wide Evernote as a repository for client-related emails.

Two possible solutions:

1.  Give us the option to set the created date of the note to be equal to the set or received date of the email

2.  Create a new column to sort by that is tied directly to the email date. If you are adding new columns, add one for sender and recipient too.

 

Note that Mail Butler currently uses option 1 for their solution, but it only works on OSX.  Web users and Microsoft users are out of luck.  It is also a pretty pricey solution.

[DTLow 5,736]

3 hours ago, TW said:

Two possible solutions:

1.  Give us the option to set the created date of the note to be equal to the set or received date of the email

2.  Create a new column to sort by that is tied directly to the email date. If you are adding new columns, add one for sender and recipient too.

I don't think you're going to see Evernote get that mail centric, but it may happen.  
It will help if people up vote the request.

In the meantime, I'd suggest you focus on your email import process.  
As you pointed out Mail Butler has the feature; I use the predessor called Evermail.  
For us Mac users, we can use AppleScript to import the mail,
or retrieve imported mail notes -  and adjust the create date and add sender/recipient tags 

[EdH 1,670]

3 hours ago, TW said:

As business users, we would love to be able to archive emails into notebooks for our clients.  Presently, when we move emails into Evernote, no matter by which means (direct email, or any of the various plugins like Office 365 or Google Apps), the created date of the note does not match the actual date of the email.  And there is no way to sort by the actual date of the email.  Thus, unless we move the email over contemporaneously, it has the wrong date on the resulting note.  For this reason, we cannot adopt company-wide Evernote as a repository for client-related emails.

Two possible solutions:

1.  Give us the option to set the created date of the note to be equal to the set or received date of the email

2.  Create a new column to sort by that is tied directly to the email date. If you are adding new columns, add one for sender and recipient too.

 

Note that Mail Butler currently uses option 1 for their solution, but it only works on OSX.  Web users and Microsoft users are out of luck.  It is also a pretty pricey solution.

I think this was specifically talked about a few years ago when Business was getting started in that they did NOT want to be the email backup solution. Accounts are I think limited to 100,000 notes (not sure if that is a database thing, client thing, or a combination) and after having a user autoforward all of his emails and running up to over 87,000 emails/notes in his account, they started setting up restrictions on how many notes could be added daily through these mechanisms.

Besides, both Outlook and Gmail offer better filtering for for searching emails since the email fields are actual filterable fields, vs just a big blob of text. You cannot easily (if at all) do a search in Evernote for emails to joe@company.com where you were on the CC line for example. Looking for to:joe@company.com won't work if he wasn't the first person on the line.