Set the Decryption Certificate for an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetDecryptCert method, which explicitly provides a certificate (with access to its private key) for decrypting a received encrypted email. Set the certificate before loading the encrypted message so Chilkat can decrypt it automatically. This example loads the certificate from a PFX, sets it, and then loads an encrypted email.

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  Demonstrates the SetDecryptCert method, which explicitly provides a certificate (with
#  access to its private key) for decrypting a received encrypted email.  Set the cert
#  before loading the encrypted email so it can be decrypted automatically.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email

#  Load a certificate together with its private key from a PFX file.
$cert = New-Object Chilkat.Cert
$success = $cert.LoadPfxFile("qa_data/certs/decryption.pfx","pfx_password")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($cert.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Provide the certificate to use for decryption.
$success = $email.SetDecryptCert($cert)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Load the encrypted email; Chilkat decrypts it using the certificate.
$success = $email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/encrypted.eml")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("ReceivedEncrypted = " + $email.ReceivedEncrypted)
$("Decrypted = " + $email.Decrypted)

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