Rust

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. Rust

let email = chilkat::Email::new();

if email.load_eml("qa_data/eml/p.eml").is_err() {
    println!("{}", email.last_error_text());
    return;
}

let sb = chilkat::StringBuilder::new();
let _ = sb.append(&email.get_header_field("Received").unwrap_or_default());

// Replace semicolons with CRLF's
let num_replaced = sb.replace(";", "\r\n");

let st = chilkat::StringTable::new();
let _ = st.append_from_sb(&sb);

if st.count() == 0 {
    println!("Should have at least one line..");
    return;
}

// The date/time string is the last line in the string table.
let _ = sb.set_string(&st.string_at(st.count() - 1).unwrap_or_default());
let _ = sb.trim();

println!("Received date/time = {}", sb.get_as_string().unwrap_or_default());