Verify DomainKey-Signature Headers in Downloaded Email
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Downloads email from an IMAP server and verifies the DomainKey-Signature header(s) in each email, if present.
Note: DKIM-Signatures are much more common than DomainKey-Signatures. See the other Chilkat example for verifying DKIM-Signatures (link in the code below).
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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)
success = 0
' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
set imap = CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")
' Connect to an IMAP server, login, select mailbox..
' Use TLS
imap.Ssl = 1
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If (success = 1) Then
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success = 1) Then
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
End If
End If
If (success <> 1) Then
outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
WScript.Quit
End If
' Note: DKIM-Signatures are much more common than DomainKey-Signature
' See DKIM-Signature Verify Sample.
set dkim = CreateObject("Chilkat.Dkim")
' Download a max of 10 emails and verify any DomainKey-Signature headers
' that are present.
' Download emails by sequence numbers (not UIDs).
bUid = 0
n = imap.NumMessages
If (n > 50) Then
n = 50
End If
set json = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
json.EmitCompact = 0
' To verify DomainKey-Signature headers, we need the exact unmodified MIME bytes of each email.
set mimeData = CreateObject("Chilkat.BinData")
seqNum = 1
Do While seqNum <= n
' The FetchSingleBd method was introduced in v9.5.0.76
success = imap.FetchSingleBd(seqNum,bUid,mimeData)
If (success <> 1) Then
outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
WScript.Quit
End If
' Note: DKIM-Signatures are much more common than DomainKey-Signature
' See DKIM-Signature Verify Sample.
' Get the number of DomainKey-Signature headers.
numSigs = dkim.NumDomainKeySigs(mimeData)
' Verify each..
j = 0
Do While j < numSigs
outFile.WriteLine("------ DomainKey Signature " & j)
success = dkim.DomainKeyVerify(j,mimeData)
If (success <> 1) Then
outFile.WriteLine("Not valid.")
outFile.WriteLine(dkim.LastErrorText)
Else
outFile.WriteLine("valid.")
End If
' Show the additional information about the signature verification
success = json.Load(dkim.VerifyInfo)
outFile.WriteLine(json.Emit())
' The JSON contains information such as this:
' {
' "domain": "amazonses.com",
' "selector": "7v7vs6w47njt4pimodk5mmttbegzsi6n",
' "publicKey": "MIGfMA0GCSqG...v2GvWPqGHz6uqeQIDAQAB",
' "canonicalization": "relaxed/simple",
' "algorithm": "rsa-sha256",
' "signedHeaders": "Subject:From:To:Date:Mime-Version:Content-Type:References:Message-Id:Feedback-ID",
' "verified": "yes"
' }
j = j + 1
Loop
seqNum = seqNum + 1
Loop
success = imap.Disconnect()
outFile.Close