(Visual FoxPro) Set the Email Date Header to the Current System Date/Time

Demonstrates how to set the Date header field of an email to the computer's current date/time. Note: When an email object is instantiated, the Date header field is automatically added and initialized to the current system date/time. The need to explicitly set the Date header could arise when loading an email from a .eml.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loDateTime

* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Email')
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')

* At this point, a new email object has been instantiated, and it
* already has a Date header field containing the current date/time.
? "Date: " + loEmail.EmailDateStr

* We can also get the Date header like this:
? "Date: " + loEmail.GetHeaderField("Date")

* Load a .eml into the email object:
lnSuccess = loEmail.LoadEml("myEmlFiles/someEmail.eml")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Show the Date that was in the .eml
? "Date: " + loEmail.EmailDateStr

* Now the Date header contains whatever was in the .eml
* Let's update it to the current system date/time..

* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.CkDateTime')
loDateTime = CreateObject('Chilkat.CkDateTime')

loDateTime.SetFromCurrentSystemTime()

lnSuccess = loEmail.SetDt(loDateTime)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    RELEASE loDateTime
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Now show that the Date is the current system time:
? "Date: " + loEmail.EmailDateStr
? "Date: " + loEmail.GetHeaderField("Date")

RELEASE loEmail
RELEASE loDateTime