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Use an XML Certificate Vault with IMAP

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.UseCertVault method, which associates an XmlCertVault with the Imap object as a source of certificates and private keys for S/MIME operations. The only argument is the vault. Only one vault is associated at a time.

Note: The certificate path is relative to the application's current working directory. Supply the path to your own certificate file.

Background: An XmlCertVault is a portable container that can hold multiple certificates and keys in a single (optionally password-protected) XML file. It is a convenient way to ship the exact set of credentials an application needs without depending on the operating system's certificate stores. Associating a vault makes all of its contents available for S/MIME decryption and signature verification.

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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

'  Demonstrates the Imap.UseCertVault method, which associates an XmlCertVault with the Imap
'  object as a source of certificates and private keys for S/MIME operations.  The only
'  argument is the XmlCertVault.

set imap = CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")

imap.Ssl = 1
imap.Port = 993

success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

success = imap.Login("user@example.com","myPassword")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  The PFX password is not hard-coded in source.  Insert code here to obtain it from an
'  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.

'  Build a certificate vault and add a PFX to it.
set vault = CreateObject("Chilkat.XmlCertVault")
success = vault.AddPfxFile("qa_data/smime.pfx",pfxPassword)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(vault.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Associate the vault with the Imap object.  Only one vault is associated at a time.
success = imap.UseCertVault(vault)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

success = imap.Disconnect()
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If


outFile.Close