(Mono C#) IMAP Login Secure

Demonstrates how to use the LoginSecure method introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.71.

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

Chilkat.Imap imap = new Chilkat.Imap();

//  Connect to an IMAP server..
imap.Ssl = true;
imap.Port = 993;
bool success = imap.Connect("imap.mail.me.com");
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

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

//  {
//    "imap_login": "fLkxsfnVaIWLiL/R32jo6g==",
//    "imap_password": "/NbaFBoCftBLFf8WBU9Xtw=="
//  }

Chilkat.JsonObject json = new Chilkat.JsonObject();
json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/imap.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("imap_login"),ssLogin);
crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("imap_password"),ssPassword);

//  Pass the credentials to the LoginSecure method:
success = imap.LoginSecure(ssLogin,ssPassword);
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  ...

imap.Disconnect();