Swift

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. Swift

func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

    let email = CkoEmail()!

    success = email.loadEml(mimePath: "qa_data/eml/p.eml")
    if success != true {
        print("\(email.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    let sb = CkoStringBuilder()!
    sb.append(value: email.getHeaderField(fieldName: "Received"))

    // Replace semicolons with CRLF's
    var numReplaced: Int = sb.replace(value: ";", replacement: "\r\n").intValue

    let st = CkoStringTable()!
    st.append(fromSb: sb)

    if st.count.intValue == 0 {
        print("Should have at least one line..")
        return
    }

    // The date/time string is the last line in the string table.
    sb.setString(value: st.string(at: st.count.intValue - 1))
    sb.trim()

    print("Received date/time = \(sb.getAsString()!)")

}