(JavaScript) IMAP over Multiple Hop SSH
Demonstrates how to read IMAP email (using TCP or TLS) tunneled through mulitple-hop SSH. The scheme looks like this:
Application => ServerSSH1 => ServerSSH2 => IMAPServer
The ConnectThroughSsh and UseSsh methods are added in Chilkat version 9.5.0.55 to accomplish this task.
var success = false;
// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
var ssh1 = new CkSsh();
// Connect directly to the 1st SSH server.
success = ssh1.Connect("serverssh1.com",22);
if (success !== true) {
console.log(ssh1.LastErrorText);
return;
}
// Authenticate using login/password:
success = ssh1.AuthenticatePw("ssh1Login","ssh1Password");
if (success !== true) {
console.log(ssh1.LastErrorText);
return;
}
// Connect through the 1st SSH connection to reach a 2nd SSH server.
// Note: Any number of SSH connections may be simultaneously tunneled through a single
// existing SSH connection.
var ssh2 = new CkSsh();
success = ssh2.ConnectThroughSsh(ssh1,"serverssh2.com",22);
if (success !== true) {
console.log(ssh2.LastErrorText);
return;
}
// Authenticate with ssh2...
success = ssh2.AuthenticatePw("ssh2Login","ssh2Password");
if (success !== true) {
console.log(ssh2.LastErrorText);
return;
}
var imap = new CkImap();
// Tell the IMAP object to connect to the IMAP server though the ssh2 tunnel (which itself is routed through ssh1).
// The connection looks like this: Application => ServerSSH1 => ServerSSH2 => IMAPServer
success = imap.UseSsh(ssh2);
if (success !== true) {
console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
return;
}
imap.Ssl = true;
imap.Port = 993;
// Connect to an IMAP server (through the multi-hop SSH tunnel)
success = imap.Connect("imap.someimapserver.com");
if (success !== true) {
console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
return;
}
// Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword");
if (success !== true) {
console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
return;
}
// Do whatever needs to be done... for example,
// Create the new email folder (sub-mailbox) on the IMAP server.
// If no folder path is provided, the new folder is a sub-mailbox of Inbox.
success = imap.CreateMailbox("newFolder");
if (success !== true) {
console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
return;
}
console.log("Success.");
// Close the connection with the IMAP server. (This closes the tunnel through ssh2)
// The connection with ssh2 is still alive, and may be used for more connections.
success = imap.Disconnect();
// Close the connection with ssh2. (This closes the the tunnel through ssh1.)
// The connection with ssh1 is still alive, and may be used for more connections.
ssh2.Disconnect();
ssh1.Disconnect();
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