Xojo Plugin

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. Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email

success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/p.eml")
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Dim sb As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = sb.Append(email.GetHeaderField("Received"))

// Replace semicolons with CRLF's
Dim numReplaced As Int32
numReplaced = sb.Replace(";",EndOfLine.Windows)

Dim st As New Chilkat.StringTable
success = st.AppendFromSb(sb)

If (st.Count = 0) Then
    System.DebugLog("Should have at least one line..")
    Return
End If

// The date/time string is the last line in the string table.
success = sb.SetString(st.StringAt(st.Count - 1))
success = sb.Trim()

System.DebugLog("Received date/time = " + sb.GetAsString())