IMCLIENT(3)						     Library Functions Manual						       IMCLIENT(3)

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NAME

       imclient - (library) authenticating callback interface to IMAP/IMSP servers

SYNOPSIS

       #include <cyrus/imclient.h>

       int imclient_connect(struct imclient **imclient, const char *host, const char *port);

       void imclient_close (struct imclient *imclient);
       void imclient_setflags(struct imclient *imclient, intflags);
       void imclient_clearflags (struct imclient *imclient, intflags);
       char* imclient_servername (struct imclient *imclient);
       void imclient_addcallback (struct imclient * imclient ,...);
       void imclient_send (struct imclient *imclient, void (*finishproc)(), void *finishrock, const char *fmt, ...);
       void imclient_getselectinfo (struct imclient *imclient, int *fd, int * wanttowrite);
       void imclient_processoneevent (struct imclient *imclient);
       int imclient_authenticate (struct imclient *imclient, struct sasl_client **availmech, const char *service, const char *user, int protal-
       lowed);
       int imclient_havetls ();
       int imclient_starttls (struct imclient *imclient, char *cert_file, char *key_file, char *CAfile, char *CApath);

DESCRIPTION

       The imclient library functions are distributed with Cyrus IMAP and IMSP.  These functions are used for building IMAP/IMSP client software.
       These functions handle Kerberos authentication and can set callbacks based on the keyword in untagged replies or based on the command tag
       at the end of command replies.

       Users must link with the -lcyrus switch, and must supply a function called fatal to be called in case of any error within libcyrus.a.

       All of the imclient functions begin with the prefix imclient and takes  an  argument of type struct imclient * as the first argument which
       is  initialized by imclient_connect and freed by imclient_close.

       See below for a description of each function.

       imclient_connect()
	    Connects the client server to the host. If successful, it returns 0 and sets the imclient argument to a pointer to an imclient struct.
	    The imclient struct represents the current connection,  flags, and	callbacks. On failure, the current errno is returned if a system
	    call failed,  -1 is returned if the host name was not found, and  -2 is returned if the service name was not found.

       imclient_close()
	    Closes and frees the imclient connection.

	imclient_setflags()
	    Sets the flags specified by the flags argument on the imclient connection. Currently the only  flag allowed is IMCLIENT_CONN_NONSYN-
	    CLITERAL (this flag indicates that the server supports non-synchronizing literals described by the LITERAL+ extension).

       imclient_clearflags()
	    Clears the flags specified by the flags argument on the imclient connection.

       imclient_servername()
	    Returns a  char * pointer to the name of the server connected to by imclient.

       imclient_addcallback()
	    Adds an untagged data callback to the imclient connection. The function imclient_addcallback takes callbacks of the type
	    imclient_proc_t which is defined to be:
	       typedef void imclient_proc_t (struct imclient *imclient, void *rock, struct imclient_reply *reply);
	    and struct imclient_reply * is defined to be:
	       struct imclient_reply {
			char *keyword;
			long msgno;
			char *text;
	       };

	    After the first argument imclient, there can be zero or more instances of the set of keyword, flags, proc, and rock, each adding or
	    changing a single callback.  Each instance	adds or changes the callback for keyword.  The argument, flags, specifies information
	    about the parsing of the untagged data.  proc and rock specify the callback function and rock to invoke when the untagged data is
	    received.  proc may be a null pointer, in which case no function is invoked.  The callback function may not call the functions
	    imclient_close(), imclient_send(), imclient_eof(), imclient_processoneevent(), or imclient_authenticate() on the connection. The call-
	    back function may over write  the text of untagged data.

       imclient_send()
	    Sends a new command to the imclient connection.  finishproc and finnishrock are the function and rock called when the  command com-
	    pletes.  functionproc may be a null pointer, in which case no callback is made. The call back function may not call the functions
	    imclient_close(), imclient_send(), imclient_eof(), imclient_processoneevent(), or imclient_authenticate() on the connection.  The
	    argument, fmt , is a print like specification of the command. It must not include the tag as the tag is automatically added by
	    imclient_send().  The defined %-sequences are:
	       %% for %
	       %a for an IMAP atom
	       %s for an astring (which will be quoted or literalized as needed)
	       %d for a decimal
	       %u for an unsigned  decimal
	       %v for #astring (argument is a null-terminated array of char * which are written as space separated astrings)

       imclient_getselectinfo()
	    Gets the information for calling select(2).  fd is filled in with the file descriptor to select(2) for read.  wanttowrite is filled in
	    with a nonzero value if select should be used for write as well.

       imclient_processoneevent()
	    Processes one input or output event on the imclient connection.

       imclient_authenticate()
	    Authenticates the imclient connection using one of the mechanisms in availmech.  The argument, user, if not NULL, specifies the user
	    to authenticate as. If the user is NULL, the current user is used.	The argument protallowed is a bitmask of permissible protection
	    mechanisms.
	    On success, 0 is returned.	On failure (i.e., "BAD" keyboard, or no authentication mechanisms worked), 1 is returned. On extreme fail-
	    ure (premature "OK"), 2 is returned.

       imclient_havetls()
	    Returns a Boolean indicating whether the imclient library was compiled with TLS (SSL) support.  If so, imclient_starttls() may be used
	    to secure the IMAP connection.

       imclient_starttls()
	    Issues a STARTTLS command on an existing IMAP connection and negotiates the secure link.  The cert_file and key_file arguments specify
	    the client certificate and secret key to use to authenticate ourselves to the server.  If client authentication is not needed, set
	    both of these arguments to NULL.

	    The CAfile and CApath arguments specify a file or directory, respectively, of CA certificates for validating server certificates.
	    (See SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(3) for details.)  If both of these are NULL, the client will be unable to validate the server's
	    certificate, in which case the connection may succeed but a warning will be printed to stdout.

EXAMPLES

       The following code is a possible skeletion of imclient that relies on Kerberos to do authentication.  This code preforms an IMAP CAPABILITY
       request and prints out the result.

       struct sasl_client;
       #include <cyrus/xmalloc.h> /* example uses xstrdup */
       #include <cyrus/sasl.h>
       #include <cyrus/imclient.h>
       #include <stdio.h>

       extern struct sasl_client krb_sasl_client;

       struct sasl_client *login_sasl_client[] = {
	   &krb_sasl_client,
	   NULL
       };
       struct imclient *imclient;
       char server[] = "cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu" ;
       char port[] = "imap";

       void fatal(char* message, int rc) {
	   fprintf(stderr, "fatal error: %s
", message);
	   exit(rc);
       }

       static void callback_capability(struct imclient *imclient,
			   void *rock,
			   struct imclient_reply *reply) {
	   if (reply->text != NULL) {
	    *((char**)rock) = xstrdup( reply->text );
	   }
       }

       static void end_command (struct imclient *connection, void*
		      rock,  struct imclient_reply *inmsg) {
	   (*(int*)rock)--;
       }

       main() {
	   char* capability_string;
	   int nc;

	   if (imclient_connect(&imclient, server, port)) {
	    fprintf(stderr,
		 "error: Couldn't connect to %s %s
",
		 server, port);
	    exit(1);
	   }

	   if (imclient_authenticate(imclient, login_sasl_client, "imap"
			    /* service */,
			    NULL /* user */, SASL_PROT_ANY)) {
	    exit(1);
	   }

	   imclient_addcallback(imclient, "CAPABILITY",
		       CALLBACK_NOLITERAL,
		       callback_capability,
		       &capability_string,
		       NULL);

	   nc = 1;

	   imclient_send(imclient, end_command,
		   (void*) &nc, "CAPABILITY");

	   while(nc > 0) {
	    imclient_processoneevent(imclient);
	   }

	   if (strstr("LITERAL+", capability_string)) {
	    imclient_setflags(imclient, IMCLIENT_CONN_NONSYNCLITERAL);
	   }

	   imclient_send(imclient, NULL, NULL, "LOGOUT");
	   imclient_close(imclient);

	   printf("capability text is: %s
", capability_string);

	   free(capability_string);
       }

BUGS

       No known bugs.

SEE ALSO

       cyradm, imapd, imspd, RFC2033 (IMAP LITERAL+ extension), RFC2060 (IMAP4rev1 specification), and select(2)

KEYWORDS

       IMAP, ACAP, IMSP, Kerberos, Authentication

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