Certificate Class


Provides properties and methods for associating digital certificate with an e-mail address. This object is obsoleted, use X509Certificate2 instead.

System.Object
    EASendMail.Certificate

[Visual Basic]
Public Class Certificate
[C#]
public class Certificate
[C++]
public ref class Certificate
[JScript]
public class Certificate

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Public Constructors

Certificate Constructor Initializes a new instance of the Certificate class.

Public Properties

HasCertificate Gets whether the certificate has been loaded.
PublicKey Gets the certificate encoded public key for DomainKeys and DKIM deployment.

Public Methods

Load Loads the certificate from .pfx or .cer file.
FindSubject Finds the certificate in Certificate Storage by subject.
Unload Unloads the certificate.

Remarks

By default, Personal digital certificate is stored at Certificate.CertificateStoreLocation.CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_CURRENT_USER "my". Encryption digital certificates are stored at Certificate.CertificateStoreLocation.CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_CURRENT_USER "Address Book". If you want to search certificate in Windows Active Directory, please use Certificate.CertificateStoreLocation.CERT_STORE_PROV_LDAP_STORE and input LDAP query statement in storeName parameter.
To learn more about email digital signature and encryption, please refer to Digital Signature and E-mail Encryption section.

Example

[Visual Basic, C#] The following example demonstrates how to load certificate to sign email content with EASendMail SMTP Component. To get the full samples of EASendMail, please refer to Samples section.

[VB - Sign Email with Certificate]

Try
    Dim oMail As SmtpMail = New SmtpMail("TryIt")
    oMail.From = New MailAddress("test@emailarchitect.net")

    ' Find certificate by email adddress in My Personal Store. 
    ' The certificate can be imported by *.pfx file like this: 
    ' oMail.From.Certificate.Load("c:\test.pfx", "pfxpassword", Certificate.CertificateKeyLocation.CRYPT_USER_KEYSET) 
    ' Once the certificate is loaded to From, the email content will be signed automatically

    oMail.From.Certificate.FindSubject(oMail.From.Address,
        Certificate.CertificateStoreLocation.CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_CURRENT_USER,
        "My")

Catch exp As Exception
    Console.WriteLine("No sign certificate found for sender email: {0}", exp.Message)
End Try


[C# - Sign Email with Certificate] try { SmtpMail oMail = new SmtpMail("TryIt"); oMail.From = "test@adminsystem.com"; // Find certificate by email adddress in My Personal Store. // The certificate can be also imported by *.pfx file like this: // oMail.From.Certificate.Load("c:\\test.pfx", "pfxpassword", Certificate.CertificateKeyLocation.CRYPT_USER_KEYSET); // Once the certificate is loaded to From, the email content will be signed automatically oMail.From.Certificate.FindSubject(oMail.From.Address, Certificate.CertificateStoreLocation.CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_CURRENT_USER, "My"); } catch (Exception exp) { Console.WriteLine("No sign certificate found {0}", exp.Message); }
[VB - Encrypt Email] Dim oMail As SmtpMail = New SmtpMail("TryIt") oMail.From = New MailAddress("test@adminsystem.com") oMail.To = New AddressCollection("encrypt1@adminsystem.com, encrypt2@adminsystem.com") For i As Integer = 0 To oMail.To.Count - 1 Dim recipient As MailAddress = oMail.To(i) Try ' Find certificate by email adddress in My Other Peoples Store. ' The certificate can be imported by *.cer file like this: ' recipient.Certificate.Load("c:\encrypt1.cer") ' Once the certificate Is loaded to MailAddress, the email content will be encrypted automatically recipient.Certificate.FindSubject(recipient.Address, Certificate.CertificateStoreLocation.CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_CURRENT_USER, "AddressBook") Catch Try ' No certificate found in AddressBook, lookup it in My recipient.Certificate.FindSubject(recipient.Address, Certificate.CertificateStoreLocation.CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_CURRENT_USER, "My") Catch ex As Exception Console.WriteLine("No encryption certificate found for {0} - {1}", recipient.Address, ex.Message) End Try End Try Next
[C# - Encrypt Email] SmtpMail oMail = new SmtpMail("TryIt"); oMail.From = "test@adminsystem.com"; oMail.To = "encrypt1@adminsystem.com, encrypt2@adminsystem.com"; for (int i = 0; i < oMail.To.Count; i++) { MailAddress recipient = oMail.To[i] as MailAddress; try { // Find certificate by email adddress in My Other Peoples Store. // The certificate can be also imported by *.cer file like this: // recipient.Certificate.Load("c:\\encrypt1.cer"); // Once the certificate is loaded to MailAddress, the email content will be encrypted automatically recipient.Certificate.FindSubject(recipient.Address, Certificate.CertificateStoreLocation.CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_CURRENT_USER, "AddressBook"); } catch { try { // No certificate found in AddressBook, lookup it in My recipient.Certificate.FindSubject(recipient.Address, Certificate.CertificateStoreLocation.CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_CURRENT_USER, "My"); } catch (Exception exp) { Console.WriteLine("No encryption certificate found for {0} - {1}", recipient.Address, exp.Message); } } }
[VB - Find Certificate in Active Directory by LDAP] Dim oMail As SmtpMail = New SmtpMail("TryIt") oMail.From = New MailAddress("test@adminsystem.com") oMail.To = New AddressCollection("Encryptor <encrypt@adminsystem.com>") For i As Integer = 0 To oMail.To.Count - 1 Dim recipient As MailAddress = oMail.To(i) Try ' Please change the ldap path as your environment. recipient.Certificate.FindSubject(recipient.Address, Certificate.CertificateStoreLocation.CERT_STORE_PROV_LDAP_STORE, String.Format("ldap:///CN={0},CN=USERS,DC=my,DC=server?userCertificate", recipient.Name)) Catch exp As Exception Console.WriteLine("No encryption certificate found for {0} - {1}", recipient.Address, exp.Message) End Try Next
[C# - Find Certificate in Active Directory by LDAP] SmtpMail oMail = new SmtpMail("TryIt"); oMail.From = "test@adminsystem.com"; oMail.To = "Encryptor <encrypt@adminsystem.com>"; for (int i = 0; i < oMail.To.Count; i++) { MailAddress recipient = oMail.To[i] as MailAddress; try { // Please change the ldap path as your environment. recipient.Certificate.FindSubject(recipient.Address, Certificate.CertificateStoreLocation.CERT_STORE_PROV_LDAP_STORE, String.Format("ldap:///CN={0},CN=USERS,DC=my,DC=server?userCertificate", recipient.Name)); } catch (Exception exp) { Console.WriteLine("No encryption certificate found for {0} - {1}", recipient.Address, exp.Message); } }

Online Examples

Sign Email - VB
Encrypt Email - VB
Sign Email - C#
Encrypt Email - C#
Sign Email - C++/CLI
Encrypt Email - C++/CLI