React Native

Send Signed Email using PFX File

Demonstrates how to send a signed email using a digital certificate w/ private key stored in a PFX file. React Native

import { Email, MailMan } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  // The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email.
  const mailman = new MailMan();

  // Set the SMTP server.
  mailman.smtpHost = 'smtp.mymailserver.com';

  // Create a new email object
  const email = new Email();

  email.subject = 'This email is signed';
  email.body = 'This is a digitally signed mail';
  email.from = 'Chilkat Admin <admin@chilkatsoft.com>';
  email.addTo('Chilkat Support', 'support@chilkatsoft.com');

  // Indicate that the email should be sent signed.
  email.sendSigned = true;

  // Tell the mailman to use a PFX file as a source for locating
  // the certificate and private key required for signing.
  // The certificate chosen for signing will be the one that
  // matches the sender's email address, which also has
  // a private key.  All intermediate certs in the chain of 
  // authentication, up to and including the root, will
  // be included in the signature.
  try {
    mailman.addPfxSourceFile('/pfx_files/chilkatsoft_secret.pfx', 'secret');
  } catch {
    console.log(mailman.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Signed email can be sent in two different ways.  
  // In a multipart/signed email, the signature is attached as a separate MIME part.
  // In an opaque email (signedData) the content of the email is encapsulated within the signature
  // and the email is sent as "application/pkcs7-mime". 
  // Either should be fine, but some receiving systems might require one or the other..
  mailman.opaqueSigning = false;

  // Send a signed email.
  try {
    await mailman.sendEmailAsync(email);
    // The LastErrorText property provides information
    // even when successful.
    console.log(mailman.lastErrorText);
    console.log('Mail Sent!');
  } catch {
    console.log(mailman.lastErrorText);
  }
}