Android™

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. Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/p.eml");
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

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

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

    CkStringTable st = new CkStringTable();
    st.AppendFromSb(sb);

    if (st.get_Count() == 0) {
        Log.i(TAG, "Should have at least one line..");
        return;
        }

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

    Log.i(TAG, "Received date/time = " + sb.getAsString());

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}