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Provide a Certificate Vault to an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.UseCertVault method, which adds an XML certificate vault to the email's internal certificate and private-key lookup sources for encryption, decryption, signing, and verification. This example builds a vault from a PFX and attaches it to the email.

Background: A certificate vault is a portable, in-memory store of certificates and private keys. Instead of wiring up each certificate individually for every operation, you load your credentials into one XmlCertVault and hand it to the email; Chilkat then draws on it automatically whenever it needs a key — to decrypt an incoming message, sign an outgoing one, or verify a signature. This is especially convenient on platforms without an OS certificate store.

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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oEmail
LOCAL oVault

nSuccess := 0

//  Demonstrates the UseCertVault method, which adds an XML certificate vault to the email's
//  internal certificate and private-key lookup sources for encryption, decryption, signing,
//  and verification.

oEmail := CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")

//  Build a certificate vault from a PFX (certificate + private key).
oVault := CreateObject("Chilkat.XmlCertVault")
nSuccess := oVault:AddPfxFile("qa_data/certs/certs.pfx", "pfx_password")
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oVault:LastErrorText
    oEmail:destroy()
    oVault:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  Make the vault available to the email object for crypto operations.
nSuccess := oEmail:UseCertVault(oVault)
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oEmail:LastErrorText
    oEmail:destroy()
    oVault:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

? "Certificate vault attached to the email."

//  Note: The path "qa_data/certs/certs.pfx" is a relative local filesystem path,
//  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

oEmail:destroy()
oVault:destroy()