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Xojo Plugin

IMAP Login Secure

Demonstrates how to use the LoginSecure method introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.71.

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim imap As New Chilkat.Imap

// Connect to an IMAP server..
imap.Ssl = True
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.mail.me.com")
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Imagine we've previously saved our encrypted login and password within a JSON config file
// that contains this:

// {
//   "imap_login": "fLkxsfnVaIWLiL/R32jo6g==",
//   "imap_password": "/NbaFBoCftBLFf8WBU9Xtw=="
// }

Dim json As New Chilkat.JsonObject
success = json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/imap.json")

Dim crypt As New Chilkat.Crypt2

// These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
crypt.CryptAlgorithm = "aes"
crypt.CipherMode = "cbc"
crypt.KeyLength = 128
crypt.SetEncodedKey "000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex"
crypt.SetEncodedIV "000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex"
crypt.EncodingMode = "base64"

Dim ssLogin As New Chilkat.SecureString
Dim ssPassword As New Chilkat.SecureString

// Decrypt to the secure string.  (the strings will still held in memory encrypted, but are now encrypted using
// a randomly generated session key.)
success = crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("imap_login"),ssLogin)
success = crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("imap_password"),ssPassword)

// Pass the credentials to the LoginSecure method:
success = imap.LoginSecure(ssLogin,ssPassword)
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// ...

success = imap.Disconnect()