Title: Email Time stamp
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Email Time stamp

 *  Resolved [massimod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/massimod/)
 * (@massimod)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-time-stamp/)
 * I see that if for ANY reason the email is delayed (no visits for example so no
   WP Cron), the email timestamp is not the original but the time of the email is
   actually PROCESSED.
 * IMHO that is wrong.
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/smtp-mailing-queue/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smtp-mailing-queue/)

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 *  Anonymous User 13300557
 * (@anonymized-13300557)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-time-stamp/#post-7294792)
 * The time in the email header is the time the email was sent via smtp and as far
   as I know there is know way to change that, sorry.
 * If you need the time as close as possible to the enqueuing time you might want
   to use a real cronjob instead of wp_cron.

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