(MFC) Load .eml and Decrypt (smime.p7m)

Loads an encrypted email from a .eml file and decrypts using certificate w/ private key found in a .p12 (or .pfx) file.

The Content-Type and Content-Disposition email headers of the email to be decrypted look similar to this:

Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-mime; smime-type=enveloped-data;
	name="smime.p7m"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7m"

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See Also: Using MFC CString in Chilkat

#include <CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    CkString strOut;

    CkEmail email;

    bool success;

    // Add a PFX (or .p12) to be used for decryption
    success = email.AddPfxSourceFile("myCert.p12","passwordForP12");
    if (success != true) {
        strOut.append(email.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    // Loading the .eml automatically decrypts.
    success = email.LoadEml("encrypted.eml");
    if (success != true) {
        strOut.append(email.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    // The email now exists as it was prior to encryption.
    // Your app may access the email's subject, body, attachments,
    // etc. using the Chilkat Email API...

    // Save the decrypted email:
    success = email.SaveEml("decrypted.eml");
    if (success != true) {
        strOut.append(email.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    strOut.append("Success.");
    strOut.append("\r\n");


    SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());

    }