What is exactly de MailMessage.Date property for an incoming email?

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Hi,

Could you please tell me what exactly represents the MailMessage.Date for an incoming email. Is it :

- the date when the sender wrote the email

- the date when the SMTP server sent the email (first attempt or last attempt)

- the date when the POP/IMAP server received the email

- the date when Aspose.Network downloaded the email

or another date?

Thank you!

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Hi,

Thank you for inquiry.

MailMessage.Date represents the date when the sender wrote the email.
When the message is received by POP/IMAP server, it adds information in “Received” header like IP address and received date.

MailMessage msg = MailMessage.Load(“test.eml”, MessageFormat.Eml);
Console.WriteLine("Sent date: " + msg.Date);
Console.WriteLine("Received datetime from Headers: " + msg.Headers.Get(“Received”));