Verify DomainKey-Signature Headers in Downloaded Email
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Downloads email from an IMAP server and verifies the DomainKey-Signature header(s) in each email, if present.
Note: DKIM-Signatures are much more common than DomainKey-Signatures. See the other Chilkat example for verifying DKIM-Signatures (link in the code below).
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#include <CkImap.h>
#include <CkDkim.h>
#include <CkJsonObject.h>
#include <CkBinData.h>
void ChilkatSample(void)
{
bool success = false;
// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
CkImap imap;
// Connect to an IMAP server, login, select mailbox..
// Use TLS
imap.put_Ssl(true);
imap.put_Port(993);
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com");
if (success == true) {
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword");
if (success == true) {
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");
}
}
if (success != true) {
std::cout << imap.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
return;
}
// Note: DKIM-Signatures are much more common than DomainKey-Signature
// See DKIM-Signature Verify Sample.
CkDkim dkim;
// Download a max of 10 emails and verify any DomainKey-Signature headers
// that are present.
// Download emails by sequence numbers (not UIDs).
bool bUid = false;
int seqNum;
int j;
int n = imap.get_NumMessages();
if (n > 50) {
n = 50;
}
CkJsonObject json;
json.put_EmitCompact(false);
// To verify DomainKey-Signature headers, we need the exact unmodified MIME bytes of each email.
CkBinData mimeData;
seqNum = 1;
while (seqNum <= n) {
// The FetchSingleBd method was introduced in v9.5.0.76
success = imap.FetchSingleBd(seqNum,bUid,mimeData);
if (success != true) {
std::cout << imap.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
return;
}
// Note: DKIM-Signatures are much more common than DomainKey-Signature
// See DKIM-Signature Verify Sample.
// Get the number of DomainKey-Signature headers.
int numSigs = dkim.NumDomainKeySigs(mimeData);
// Verify each..
j = 0;
while (j < numSigs) {
std::cout << "------ DomainKey Signature " << j << "\r\n";
success = dkim.DomainKeyVerify(j,mimeData);
if (success != true) {
std::cout << "Not valid." << "\r\n";
std::cout << dkim.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
}
else {
std::cout << "valid." << "\r\n";
}
// Show the additional information about the signature verification
json.Load(dkim.verifyInfo());
std::cout << json.emit() << "\r\n";
// The JSON contains information such as this:
// {
// "domain": "amazonses.com",
// "selector": "7v7vs6w47njt4pimodk5mmttbegzsi6n",
// "publicKey": "MIGfMA0GCSqG...v2GvWPqGHz6uqeQIDAQAB",
// "canonicalization": "relaxed/simple",
// "algorithm": "rsa-sha256",
// "signedHeaders": "Subject:From:To:Date:Mime-Version:Content-Type:References:Message-Id:Feedback-ID",
// "verified": "yes"
// }
j = j + 1;
}
seqNum = seqNum + 1;
}
success = imap.Disconnect();
}