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Android™

POP3 Verify Signed (S/MIME) Email

Demonstrates how to download and verify digitally signed S/MIME email.

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Android™
// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

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

    CkMailMan mailman = new CkMailMan();

    // Set the POP3 server's hostname
    mailman.put_MailHost("pop.example.com");

    // Set the POP3 login/password.
    mailman.put_PopUsername("myLogin");
    mailman.put_PopPassword("myPassword");

    CkStringTable stUidls = new CkStringTable();
    success = mailman.FetchUidls(stUidls);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, mailman.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();
    CkCert cert = new CkCert();

    int count = stUidls.get_Count();
    int i = 0;
    while (i < count) {
        // Download the full email.
        success = mailman.FetchByUidl(stUidls.stringAt(i),false,0,email);
        if (success == false) {
            Log.i(TAG, mailman.lastErrorText());
            return;
            }

        Log.i(TAG, String.valueOf(i));
        Log.i(TAG, "From: " + email.ck_from());
        Log.i(TAG, "Subject: " + email.subject());

        // The security layers of signed and/or encrypted emails
        // are automatically "unwrapped" when loaded into
        // a Chilkat email object.
        // An application only needs to check to see if an email
        // was received signed or encrypted, and then examine
        // the success/failure.  For example:
        if (email.get_ReceivedSigned() == true) {

            Log.i(TAG, "This email was signed.");

            // Check to see if the signatures were verified.
            if (email.get_SignaturesValid() == true) {
                Log.i(TAG, "Digital signature(s) verified.");
                Log.i(TAG, "Signer: " + email.signedBy());

                success = email.LastSignerCert(0,cert);
                if (success == false) {
                    Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
                    return;
                    }

                Log.i(TAG, "Signing cert: " + cert.subjectCN());
                }

            }
        else {
            Log.i(TAG, "Digital signature verification failed.");
            }

        i = i + 1;
        }

    mailman.Pop3EndSession();

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}