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Load .eml and Decrypt (smime.p7m)

Loads an encrypted email from a .eml file and decrypts using certificate w/ private key found in a .p12 (or .pfx) file.

The Content-Type and Content-Disposition email headers of the email to be decrypted look similar to this:

Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-mime; smime-type=enveloped-data;
	name="smime.p7m"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7m"

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();

# Add a PFX (or .p12) to be used for decryption
$success = $email->AddPfxSourceFile("myCert.p12","passwordForP12");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Loading the .eml automatically decrypts.
$success = $email->LoadEml("encrypted.eml");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# The email now exists as it was prior to encryption.
# Your app may access the email's subject, body, attachments,
# etc. using the Chilkat Email API...

# Save the decrypted email:
$success = $email->SaveEml("decrypted.eml");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Success." . "\r\n";