I’ve been trying to overcome a Year 2K bug problem but without success. I have a 486 PC using Windows 3.1. For email I use the Microsoft Internet Mail program. This worked fine until 1 January 2000. Since then the program no longer records the date received or sent, but instead writes “[No, or invalid, date]“. I have tried changing the date format on the desktop but it has not helped. I have also just noticed that for one of my email messages the program has recorded a ‘Sent’ date and time: 8/8/2001 06:30 although my computer clock reads the correct date. Is there a solution to this problem?

Since the Windows clock is showing the correct time we can assume that the problem is with Microsoft Internet Mail. Microsoft discontinued Microsoft Internet Mail which meant that there wouldn’t be any patches, upgrades, or Y2K patches available for it. If this problem does bother you greatly, I suggest that you download a new email client to replace your old one. You can find a list of email clients for Windows 3.1 at win3x.tucows.com/softmail.html. I suggest the email client Pegasus. It is very feature rich and is freeware. You can find it at www.pegasus.usa.com/.