(JavaScript) POP3 over Multiple Hop SSH
Demonstrates how to read POP3 email (using TCP or TLS) tunneled through mulitple-hop SSH. The scheme looks like this:
Application => ServerSSH1 => ServerSSH2 => POP3Server Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.
var success = false;
// This example requires 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 == false) {
console.log(ssh1.LastErrorText);
return;
}
// Authenticate using login/password:
success = ssh1.AuthenticatePw("ssh1Login","ssh1Password");
if (success == false) {
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 == false) {
console.log(ssh2.LastErrorText);
return;
}
// Authenticate with ssh2...
success = ssh2.AuthenticatePw("ssh2Login","ssh2Password");
if (success == false) {
console.log(ssh2.LastErrorText);
return;
}
var mailman = new CkMailMan();
// Tell the mailman object to connect to the POP3 server though the ssh2 tunnel (which itself is routed through ssh1).
// The connection looks like this: Application => ServerSSH1 => ServerSSH2 => POP3Server
success = mailman.UseSsh(ssh2);
if (success == false) {
console.log(mailman.LastErrorText);
return;
}
// Set the POP3 server's hostname
mailman.MailHost = "pop.example.com";
// Set the POP3 login/password.
mailman.PopUsername = "myLogin";
mailman.PopPassword = "myPassword";
// Establish the POP3 connection through the ssh2 tunnel.
success = mailman.Pop3BeginSession();
if (success == false) {
console.log(mailman.LastErrorText);
return;
}
// Get the number of messages in the mailbox.
var numMessages = mailman.GetMailboxCount();
var email = new CkEmail();
var i = 1;
while (i <= numMessages) {
// Fetch by the message number (not by the UIDL)
success = mailman.FetchOne(false,0,i,email);
if (success == false) {
console.log(mailman.LastErrorText);
return;
}
console.log(email.From + ": " + email.Subject + "\n");
i = i+1;
}
// Close the connection with the POP3 server. (This closes the tunnel through ssh2)
// The connection with ssh2 is still alive, and may be used for more connections.
success = mailman.Pop3EndSession();
// 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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