Unicode 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. Unicode C++

#include <CkEmailW.h>
#include <CkStringBuilderW.h>
#include <CkStringTableW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkEmailW email;

    success = email.LoadEml(L"qa_data/eml/p.eml");
    if (success != true) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",email.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    CkStringBuilderW sb;
    sb.Append(email.getHeaderField(L"Received"));

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

    CkStringTableW st;
    st.AppendFromSb(sb);

    if (st.get_Count() == 0) {
        wprintf(L"Should have at least one line..\n");
        return;
    }

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

    wprintf(L"Received date/time = %s\n",sb.getAsString());
    }