(VB.NET UWP/WinRT) Get the Email Received Date/Time

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)

Chilkat Universal Windows Platform (UWP) / WinRT Downloads Chilkat for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP)

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email

Dim success As Boolean = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/p.eml")
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim sb As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
sb.Append(email.GetHeaderField("Received"))

'  Replace semicolons with CRLF's
Dim numReplaced As Integer = sb.Replace(";",vbCrLf)

Dim st As New Chilkat.StringTable
st.AppendFromSb(sb)

If (st.Count = 0) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Should have at least one line..")
    Exit Sub
End If


'  The date/time string is the last line in the string table.
sb.SetString(st.StringAt(st.Count - 1))
sb.Trim()

Debug.WriteLine("Received date/time = " & sb.GetAsString())