Java

Get the Email Received Date/Time

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Get's the date/time from the topmost Received header. The date/time of when you received an email may be different than the date/time stored in the Date header field, which if truthful, is the date when the email was sent.

The Received header field will look something like this:

Received: from mail.example.com (mail.example.com [99.255.255.99])
 by inbound-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com with SMTP id 72ma443vs1g0o6vqd8erojkpss35s0dt32h323o1
 for admin@chilkatsoft.com;
 Wed, 25 Jul 2018 08:04:23 +0000 (UTC)

The date/time is the final part delimited by a semicolon. Java

import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    boolean success = false;

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/p.eml");
    if (success != true) {
        System.out.println(email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    CkStringBuilder sb = new CkStringBuilder();
    sb.Append(email.getHeaderField("Received"));

    // Replace semicolons with CRLF's
    int numReplaced = sb.Replace(";","\r\n");

    CkStringTable st = new CkStringTable();
    st.AppendFromSb(sb);

    if (st.get_Count() == 0) {
        System.out.println("Should have at least one line..");
        return;
        }

    // The date/time string is the last line in the string table.
    sb.SetString(st.stringAt(st.get_Count() - 1));
    sb.Trim();

    System.out.println("Received date/time = " + sb.getAsString());
  }
}