(MFC) Get the Email Received Date/Time

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)

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See Also: Using MFC CString in Chilkat

#include <CkEmail.h>
#include <CkStringBuilder.h>
#include <CkStringTable.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    CkString strOut;

    CkEmail email;

    bool success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/p.eml");
    if (success != true) {
        strOut.append(email.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

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

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

    CkStringTable st;
    st.AppendFromSb(sb);

    if (st.get_Count() == 0) {
        strOut.append("Should have at least one line..");
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

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

    strOut.append("Received date/time = ");
    strOut.append(sb.getAsString());
    strOut.append("\r\n");


    SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());

    }