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. Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Email;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.StringBuilder;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.StringTable;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Email email = new Email();

        try {
            email.loadEml("qa_data/eml/p.eml");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append(email.getHeaderField("Received"));

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

        StringTable st = new StringTable();
        st.appendFromSb(sb);

        if (st.getCount() == 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.getCount() - 1));
        sb.trim();

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