Close an IMAP SSH Tunnel

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.SshCloseTunnel method, which closes the SSH tunnel opened by SshOpenTunnel. It takes no arguments. Any IMAP connection that was using the tunnel must not be used after the tunnel is closed.

-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    --  Demonstrates the Imap.SshCloseTunnel method, which closes the SSH tunnel opened by
    --  SshOpenTunnel.  It takes no arguments.  Any IMAP connection using the tunnel must not be
    --  used after the tunnel is closed.

    DECLARE @imap int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Imap', @imap OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    DECLARE @sshPort int
    SELECT @sshPort = 22
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'SshOpenTunnel', @success OUT, 'ssh.example.com', @sshPort
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @imap, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @imap
        RETURN
      END

    --  The SSH password is not hard-coded in source.  Insert code here to obtain it from an
    --  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
    DECLARE @sshPassword nvarchar(4000)

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'SshAuthenticatePw', @success OUT, 'sshUser', @sshPassword
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @imap, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @imap
        RETURN
      END

    --  With the SSH tunnel in place, connect and log in to the IMAP server as usual.  The IMAP
    --  traffic flows through the tunnel automatically.
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @imap, 'Ssl', 1
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @imap, 'Port', 993
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'Connect', @success OUT, 'imap.example.com'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @imap, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @imap
        RETURN
      END
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'Login', @success OUT, 'user@example.com', 'myPassword'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @imap, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @imap
        RETURN
      END

    --  ... use the IMAP connection ...

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'Disconnect', @success OUT
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @imap, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @imap
        RETURN
      END

    --  Close the SSH tunnel.  Do not use the IMAP connection after this point.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'SshCloseTunnel', @success OUT
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @imap, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @imap
        RETURN
      END

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @imap


END
GO