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Set an IMAP TLS Client Certificate from PEM

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.SetSslClientCertPem method, which supplies a TLS client certificate and private key from PEM. The first argument may be the PEM text itself or a path to a PEM file (Chilkat detects which), and the second is the password used when the private key is encrypted. Call it before connecting.

Note: The certificate path is relative to the application's current working directory. Supply the path to your own certificate file.

Background: PEM is the Base64 text format (delimited by -----BEGIN----- lines) commonly produced by OpenSSL and used across Unix tooling. This method is the convenient choice when your client certificate and key already live in a .pem file; use SetSslClientCertPfx for a PKCS #12 .pfx/.p12 bundle instead.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loImap
LOCAL lcPemPassword

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the Imap.SetSslClientCertPem method, which supplies a TLS client certificate
*  and private key from PEM.  The 1st argument is the PEM text or a PEM file path, and the 2nd
*  is the password when the private key is encrypted.  It must be called before connecting.

loImap = CreateObject('Chilkat.Imap')

loImap.Ssl = 1
loImap.Port = 993

*  The PEM private-key password is not hard-coded in source.  Insert code here to obtain it from an
*  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.

*  Provide the PEM client certificate BEFORE connecting.  The first argument may be a PEM file
*  path or the PEM text itself.
lnSuccess = loImap.SetSslClientCertPem("qa_data/client.pem",lcPemPassword)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loImap.Connect("imap.example.com")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loImap.Login("user@example.com","myPassword")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loImap.Disconnect()
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

RELEASE loImap