(C#) POP3 Login Secure

Demonstrates how to set the POP3 password using a secure string.

This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.71 or greater.

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

Chilkat.MailMan mailman = new Chilkat.MailMan();
bool success;

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

//  {
//    "pop3_login": "D7lnlWY291LKMeChlvQq7N/Tg7ieuSB15a+9Ekyd0R4=",
//    "pop3_password": "5neIq9Jmn0E3p71N6Yc8TA=="
//  }

Chilkat.JsonObject json = new Chilkat.JsonObject();
json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/pop3.json");

Chilkat.Crypt2 crypt = 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";

Chilkat.SecureString ssLogin = new Chilkat.SecureString();
Chilkat.SecureString ssPassword = 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.)
crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("pop3_login"),ssLogin);
crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("pop3_password"),ssPassword);

//  Set the POP3 domain, login, and password
mailman.MailHost = "pop.gmail.com";
mailman.PopSsl = true;
mailman.MailPort = 995;

mailman.PopUsername = ssLogin.Access();
//  Set the PopPassword property via the SetPassword method using the secure string.
mailman.SetPassword("pop3",ssPassword);

//  Connect and authenticate..
success = mailman.Pop3Connect();
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

success = mailman.Pop3Authenticate();
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("POP3 login successful.");

int numMessages = mailman.GetMailboxCount();
if (numMessages < 0) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Num messages in Inbox = " + Convert.ToString(numMessages));

mailman.Pop3EndSession();