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 <C_CkEmailW.h>
#include <C_CkStringBuilderW.h>
#include <C_CkStringTableW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkEmailW email;
    HCkStringBuilderW sb;
    int numReplaced;
    HCkStringTableW st;

    success = FALSE;

    email = CkEmailW_Create();

    success = CkEmailW_LoadEml(email,L"qa_data/eml/p.eml");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkEmailW_lastErrorText(email));
        CkEmailW_Dispose(email);
        return;
    }

    sb = CkStringBuilderW_Create();
    CkStringBuilderW_Append(sb,CkEmailW_getHeaderField(email,L"Received"));

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

    st = CkStringTableW_Create();
    CkStringTableW_AppendFromSb(st,sb);

    if (CkStringTableW_getCount(st) == 0) {
        wprintf(L"Should have at least one line..\n");
        CkEmailW_Dispose(email);
        CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sb);
        CkStringTableW_Dispose(st);
        return;
    }

    // The date/time string is the last line in the string table.
    CkStringBuilderW_SetString(sb,CkStringTableW_stringAt(st,CkStringTableW_getCount(st) - 1));
    CkStringBuilderW_Trim(sb);

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


    CkEmailW_Dispose(email);
    CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sb);
    CkStringTableW_Dispose(st);

    }