Node.js

IMAP over Multiple Hop SSH

Demonstrates how to read IMAP email (using TCP or TLS) tunneled through mulitple-hop SSH. The scheme looks like this:

Application => ServerSSH1 => ServerSSH2 => IMAPServer

The ConnectThroughSsh and UseSsh methods are added in Chilkat version 9.5.0.55 to accomplish this task.

Node.js

NODEJS_PRELUDE

function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

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

    var ssh1 = new chilkat.Ssh();

    // Connect directly to the 1st SSH server.
    success = ssh1.Connect("serverssh1.com",22);
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(ssh1.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Authenticate using login/password:
    success = ssh1.AuthenticatePw("ssh1Login","ssh1Password");
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(ssh1.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Connect through the 1st SSH connection to reach a 2nd SSH server.
    // Note: Any number of SSH connections may be simultaneously tunneled through a single
    // existing SSH connection.
    var ssh2 = new chilkat.Ssh();
    success = ssh2.ConnectThroughSsh(ssh1,"serverssh2.com",22);
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(ssh2.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Authenticate with ssh2...
    success = ssh2.AuthenticatePw("ssh2Login","ssh2Password");
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(ssh2.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    var imap = new chilkat.Imap();

    // Tell the IMAP object to connect to the IMAP server though the ssh2 tunnel (which itself is routed through ssh1).
    // The connection looks like this:  Application => ServerSSH1 => ServerSSH2 => IMAPServer
    success = imap.UseSsh(ssh2);
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    imap.Ssl = true;
    imap.Port = 993;

    // Connect to an IMAP server (through the multi-hop SSH tunnel)
    success = imap.Connect("imap.someimapserver.com");
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Login
    success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword");
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Do whatever needs to be done...  for example,

    // Create the new email folder (sub-mailbox) on the IMAP server.
    // If no folder path is provided, the new folder is a sub-mailbox of Inbox.
    success = imap.CreateMailbox("newFolder");
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    console.log("Success.");

    // Close the connection with the IMAP server.  (This closes the tunnel through ssh2)
    // The connection with ssh2 is still alive, and may be used for more connections.
    success = imap.Disconnect();

    // Close the connection with ssh2.  (This closes the the tunnel through ssh1.)
    // The connection with ssh1 is still alive, and may be used for more connections.
    ssh2.Disconnect();

    ssh1.Disconnect();

}

chilkatExample();