PHP ActiveX

POP3 Login Secure

Demonstrates how to set the POP3 password using a secure string.

This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.71 or greater.

PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$mailman = new COM("Chilkat.MailMan");

// Imagine we've previously saved our encrypted login and password within a JSON config file
// that contains this:

// {
//   "pop3_login": "D7lnlWY291LKMeChlvQq7N/Tg7ieuSB15a+9Ekyd0R4=",
//   "pop3_password": "5neIq9Jmn0E3p71N6Yc8TA=="
// }

$json = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$json->LoadFile('qa_data/passwords/pop3.json');

$crypt = new COM("Chilkat.Crypt2");

// These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
$crypt->CryptAlgorithm = 'aes';
$crypt->CipherMode = 'cbc';
$crypt->KeyLength = 128;
$crypt->SetEncodedKey('000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F','hex');
$crypt->SetEncodedIV('000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F','hex');
$crypt->EncodingMode = 'base64';

$ssLogin = new COM("Chilkat.SecureString");
$ssPassword = new COM("Chilkat.SecureString");

// Decrypt to the secure string.  (the strings will still held in memory encrypted, but are now encrypted using
// a randomly generated session key.)
$crypt->DecryptSecureENC($json->stringOf('pop3_login'),$ssLogin);
$crypt->DecryptSecureENC($json->stringOf('pop3_password'),$ssPassword);

// Set the POP3 domain, login, and password
$mailman->MailHost = 'pop.gmail.com';
$mailman->PopSsl = 1;
$mailman->MailPort = 995;

$mailman->PopUsername = $ssLogin->access();
// Set the PopPassword property via the SetPassword method using the secure string.
$mailman->SetPassword('pop3',$ssPassword);

// Connect and authenticate..
$success = $mailman->Pop3Connect();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $mailman->Pop3Authenticate();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'POP3 login successful.' . "\n";

$numMessages = $mailman->GetMailboxCount();
if ($numMessages < 0) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Num messages in Inbox = ' . $numMessages . "\n";

$mailman->Pop3EndSession();

?>