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Count the DKIM Signatures in a Message

Demonstrates the Chilkat Dkim.NumDkimSigs method, which returns the number of DKIM-Signature header fields in a MIME message. The only argument is a BinData holding the complete MIME.

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Background: A message can legitimately carry several DKIM signatures — the original sender's plus ones added by forwarders or mailing lists — so a verifier needs to know how many there are before checking each. This count is what supplies the valid index range for DkimVerify. Note that it counts header fields by name only, without validating them, so a malformed DKIM-Signature field is still included in the total.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

'  Demonstrates the Dkim.NumDkimSigs method, which returns the number of DKIM-Signature header
'  fields in a MIME message.  The only argument is a BinData holding the complete MIME.

Dim dkim As New Chilkat.Dkim

'  Load the complete MIME message.
Dim mimeData As New Chilkat.BinData
success = mimeData.LoadFile("qa_data/received.eml")
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(mimeData.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Count the DKIM-Signature header fields.  The count includes malformed signatures, since the
'  fields are counted without validating their syntax.
Dim numSigs As Integer = dkim.NumDkimSigs(mimeData)
Debug.WriteLine("The message has " & numSigs & " DKIM-Signature header(s).")