C++

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. C++

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

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkEmail email;

    success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/p.eml");
    if (success != true) {
        std::cout << email.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        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) {
        std::cout << "Should have at least one line.." << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

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

    std::cout << "Received date/time = " << sb.getAsString() << "\r\n";
    }