Set the Decryption Certificate and Private Key

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Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.SetDecryptCert2 method, which explicitly specifies both the certificate and its associated private key, as separate objects, to use when decrypting S/MIME encrypted email. This example loads a .cer certificate and a PEM private key, registers both, and fetches a message Chilkat can decrypt.

Background: Credentials are not always packaged together. When the certificate is a standalone .cer and the private key is a separate PEM (or other) file, SetDecryptCert2 takes the two objects individually. It is the two-object counterpart to SetDecryptCert, which expects a single certificate that already carries its private key (such as one loaded from a PFX).

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bool success = false;

//  Demonstrates the MailMan.SetDecryptCert2 method, which explicitly specifies both the
//  certificate and its associated private key (as separate objects) to use when decrypting
//  S/MIME encrypted email.

Chilkat.MailMan mailman = new Chilkat.MailMan();

//  Configure the POP3 server connection.
mailman.MailHost = "pop.example.com";
mailman.MailPort = 995;
mailman.PopSsl = true;
mailman.PopUsername = "user@example.com";
mailman.PopPassword = "myPassword";

//  Load the certificate (public) and the matching private key from separate files.
Chilkat.Cert cert = new Chilkat.Cert();
success = cert.LoadFromFile("qa_data/certs/recipient.cer");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(cert.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Chilkat.PrivateKey privKey = new Chilkat.PrivateKey();
success = privKey.LoadPemFile("qa_data/certs/recipient_privkey.pem");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(privKey.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Specify the certificate and private key to use when decrypting downloaded email.
success = mailman.SetDecryptCert2(cert,privKey);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Fetch a message; if it is encrypted, Chilkat decrypts it using the certificate and key.
Chilkat.Email email = new Chilkat.Email();
success = mailman.FetchOne(false,0,1,email);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Decrypted = " + Convert.ToString(email.Decrypted));

//  Note: Paths such as "qa_data/..." are relative local filesystem paths,
//  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

//  Note: Explicitly connecting/authenticating is optional.  Chilkat MailMan automatically
//  connects and authenticates -- using the property settings above -- whenever a server
//  operation requires it.  Calling the explicit connect/authenticate methods can still be
//  helpful to determine whether a failure occurs while connecting or while authenticating.