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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. AutoIt

Local $bSuccess = False

$oEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")

$bSuccess = $oEmail.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/p.eml")
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oEmail.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

$oSb = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$oSb.Append($oEmail.GetHeaderField("Received"))

; Replace semicolons with CRLF's
Local $iNumReplaced = $oSb.Replace(";",@CRLF)

$oSt = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringTable")
$oSt.AppendFromSb($oSb)

If ($oSt.Count = 0) Then
    ConsoleWrite("Should have at least one line.." & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; The date/time string is the last line in the string table.
$oSb.SetString($oSt.StringAt($oSt.Count - 1))
$oSb.Trim()

ConsoleWrite("Received date/time = " & $oSb.GetAsString() & @CRLF)