Thanks wightwizard, this helped me get the date but not the time. It appears the time is a bit harder to get, if it is even possible. Does anyone know how to extract the time from Apple Mail?
I will say I found a solution, though it is not all in Keyboard Maestro. I have Keyboard Maestro save the eMail as a pdf using a random name (to make sure it is unique to the folder) and then use Hazel to watch the folder and evaluate the content of the pdf. Hazel then extracts the date and time and renames the file to a format of my liking such as 2020-11-08 0900 (for 9:00 AM).
I would still love to see a Keyboard Maestro only solution
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2022/11/08 21:21
# dMod: 2022/11/08 21:21
# Appl: Mail
# Task: Extract Date String and Time String of the Selected Message.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Mail, @Extract, @Date, @Time, @String
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tell application "Mail"
set selectedMessageList to selection
if selectedMessageList ≠ {} then
set selectedMessage to item 1 of selectedMessageList
tell selectedMessage
set messageSentDate to its date sent
end tell
end if
end tell
set messageSentDate to messageSentDate as «class isot» as string
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From there you can find/replace to format the string to your liking.
Alternatively you could use Keyboard Maestro's %MailRawSource% token and parse the date out yourself.
** Note that the token uses AppleScript behind the scenes.