Perl

Find Certificate for Email Encryption

Demonstrates finding the recipient's certificate in the Windows certificate store and using it to send encrypted email. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

my $mailman = Chilkat2::MailMan->new;

# Set the SMTP server.
$mailman->SmtpHost('smtp.example.com');

# Create a new email object
my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;

$email->Subject('This email is encrypted');
$email->Body('This is a digitally encrypted mail');
$email->From('Joe <joe@example.com>');
# Emails are encrypted using the recipient's certificate.
my $recipientEmailAddr = 'jane@example2.com';
$email->AddTo('Jane', $recipientEmailAddr);

# Indicate that the email is to be sent encrypted.
$email->SendEncrypted(1);

# This example demonstrates finding the email encryption certificate
# on a Windows system where the certificate is stored in the Windows
# certificate store.

my $cert = Chilkat2::Cert->new;
# The recipient's certificate is used to encrypt.
# (Because the recipient is the only one in possession of the private key to decrypt.)
my $success = $cert->LoadByEmailAddress($recipientEmailAddr);
if (!$success) {
    print $cert->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Specify the certificate to be used for encryption.
$success = $email->SetEncryptCert($cert);

$success = $mailman->SendEmail($email);
if (!$success) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText, "\n";
} else {
    print "Encrypted Mail Sent!\n";
}