diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ff0c2235c..2d4d5e980 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+## 0.7.5-dev0
+
+### Enhancements
+
+### Features
+
+### Fixes
+
+* Adds handling for emails that do not have a datetime to extract.
+
 ## 0.7.4
 
 ### Enhancements
diff --git a/test_unstructured/cleaners/test_extract.py b/test_unstructured/cleaners/test_extract.py
index 346f2f2ac..e54b2f74e 100644
--- a/test_unstructured/cleaners/test_extract.py
+++ b/test_unstructured/cleaners/test_extract.py
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ def test_extract_datetimetz():
     )
 
 
+def test_extract_datetimetz_works_with_no_date():
+    assert extract.extract_datetimetz("NO DATE HERE") is None
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     ("text", "expected"),
     [
diff --git a/unstructured/__version__.py b/unstructured/__version__.py
index 63ee408a7..1da145839 100644
--- a/unstructured/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.7.4"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.7.5-dev0"  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/unstructured/cleaners/extract.py b/unstructured/cleaners/extract.py
index 51cc031f2..69c399984 100644
--- a/unstructured/cleaners/extract.py
+++ b/unstructured/cleaners/extract.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import datetime
 import re
-from typing import List
+from typing import List, Optional
 
 from unstructured.nlp.patterns import (
     EMAIL_ADDRESS_PATTERN,
@@ -75,9 +75,12 @@ def extract_mapi_id(text: str) -> List[str]:
     return mapi_ids
 
 
-def extract_datetimetz(text: str) -> datetime.datetime:
-    date_string = re.findall(EMAIL_DATETIMETZ_PATTERN, text)
-    return datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string[0], "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")
+def extract_datetimetz(text: str) -> Optional[datetime.datetime]:
+    date_extractions = re.findall(EMAIL_DATETIMETZ_PATTERN, text)
+    if len(date_extractions) > 0:
+        return datetime.datetime.strptime(date_extractions[0], "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")
+    else:
+        return None
 
 
 def extract_us_phone_number(text: str):