TimeStamp Class |
Namespace: MailBee.Mime
The TimeStamp type exposes the following members.
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Equals | Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object.) | |
Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) | |
GetHashCode | Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.) | |
GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) | |
MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) | |
ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
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Bias |
Gets the time offset in hours.
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By |
Gets the name of the domain which received the message and added the time stamp.
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Date |
Gets the date and time when the message was received by the mail server.
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DateAsString |
Gets the string containing the date and time when the message was received by the mail server.
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For |
Gets the e-mail address of the recipient as a string.
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From |
Gets the name and/or IP address of the source host from which the message was sent.
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ID |
Gets the unique message identifier assigned by the mail server.
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IP |
Gets the IPv4 address extracted from From part of the timestamp.
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With |
Gets the name of the protocol or service which was used to transmit the message.
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When a mail message gets sent, it passes through one or more mail servers (gateways) during the delivery. Each mail server usually alters the message by adding a new Received header which contains the information about this server and time stamp of the moment when the message passed through this server. TimeStamp class represents the information extracted from a single Received header during parsing the message.
All TimeStamp objects are stored in TimeStampCollection which represents all Received headers of the message. You can access this collection using TimeStamps property.
The first TimeStamp object in the collection usually represents the moment when the message was received by the destination mail server. MailBee uses this TimeStamp object to obtain DateReceived value.
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Some mail servers do not add Received headers. Thus, no time stamps will be available to the application. In this case, the only way to obtain the date when the message was received is to get Envelope of the message using IMAP and get the date from DateReceived property. Also, even if Received header itself is available, some of its fields may be missing. |
// To use the code below, import MailBee namespaces at the top of your code. using MailBee; using MailBee.Mime; // The actual code (put it into a method of your class) MailMessage msg = new MailMessage(); msg.LoadMessage(@"C:\Docs\TestMail.eml"); foreach (TimeStamp ts in msg.TimeStamps) { Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Bias: {0}\r\nBy: {1}\r\nDate: {2}\r\nDateAsString: {3}\r\nFor: {4}\r\nFrom: {5}\r\nID: {6}\r\nWith: {7}", ts.Bias, ts.By, ts.Date.ToString(), ts.DateAsString, ts.For, ts.From, ts.ID, ts.With)); }