I have a script that can pull out all the emails from one of my outlook folders using Win32::OLE.

Retrieving the mail body an parsing it is trivial but I can't pull out the date the email was received.

Does anyone know if there is a method or attribute that contains the received date?

These are the objects I'm playing with - err working with. 
my $outlook;
eval {$outlook = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Outlook.Application')};
die "Outlook not installed" if $@;
unless (defined $outlook) {
  $outlook = Win32::OLE->new('Outlook.Application', sub {$_[0]->Quit;}
+)
    or die "Cannot start Outlook";
}

my $mailbox = seekFolder($outlook->Session, 'Mailbox - Mysurname, Myfi
+rstname');
my $myfolder = seekFolder($mailbox, 'myfolder');

for (my $i = 1; $i <= $myfolder->Items->Count; $i++) {
   my $this_email = $myfolder->Items->Item($i);
   
   print "email text:" ,$this_email->Body, "\n:end text\n";
}

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I've tried looking at some VBA scripts but haven't had any luck - though that may be due to VBA giving me headaches!

In reply to Outlook email dates by Anonymous Monk

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