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Visual Basic 6.0

Check if a MIME Entity is Encrypted (S/MIME)

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.IsEncrypted method, which returns whether the entity is a CMS/PKCS #7 encrypted S/MIME wrapper. It takes no arguments.

Note: The file path is relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the path to your own file.

Background: This tells you a message is encrypted and must be decrypted before its real content is available — the trigger for supplying a recipient certificate and private key to Decrypt. Reading the body without decrypting first would just yield the opaque PKCS #7 blob.

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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

'  Demonstrates the Mime.IsEncrypted method, which returns whether the entity is a CMS/PKCS #7 encrypted S/MIME wrapper.  It takes no arguments.

Dim mime As New ChilkatMime
success = mime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/encrypted.eml")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print mime.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

If (mime.IsEncrypted()) Then
    Debug.Print "This is an encrypted S/MIME message."
Else
    Debug.Print "This is not an encrypted S/MIME message."
End If