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52.Dd $Mdocdate: June 3 2020 $
53.Dt SMIME_WRITE_PKCS7 3
54.Os
55.Sh NAME
56.Nm SMIME_write_PKCS7
57.Nd convert PKCS#7 structure to S/MIME format
58.Sh SYNOPSIS
59.In openssl/pkcs7.h
60.Ft int
61.Fo SMIME_write_PKCS7
62.Fa "BIO *out"
63.Fa "PKCS7 *p7"
64.Fa "BIO *data"
65.Fa "int flags"
66.Fc
67.Sh DESCRIPTION
68.Fn SMIME_write_PKCS7
69adds the appropriate MIME headers to a PKCS#7 structure to produce an
70S/MIME message.
71.Pp
72.Fa out
73is the
74.Vt BIO
75to write the data to.
76.Fa p7
77is the appropriate
78.Vt PKCS7
79structure.
80If streaming is enabled, then the content must be supplied in the
81.Fa data
82argument.
83.Fa flags
84is an optional set of flags.
85.Pp
86The following flags can be passed in the
87.Fa flags
88parameter.
89.Pp
90If
91.Dv PKCS7_DETACHED
92is set, then cleartext signing will be used.
93This option only makes sense for signedData where
94.Dv PKCS7_DETACHED
95is also set when
96.Xr PKCS7_sign 3
97is also called.
98.Pp
99If the
100.Dv PKCS7_TEXT
101flag is set, MIME headers for type
102.Sy text/plain
103are added to the content.
104This only makes sense if
105.Dv PKCS7_DETACHED
106is also set.
107.Pp
108If the
109.Dv PKCS7_STREAM
110flag is set, streaming is performed.
111This flag should only be set if
112.Dv PKCS7_STREAM
113was also set in the previous call to
114.Xr PKCS7_sign 3
115or
116.Xr PKCS7_encrypt 3 .
117.Pp
118If cleartext signing is being used and
119.Dv PKCS7_STREAM
120is not set, then the data must be read twice: once to compute the
121signature in
122.Xr PKCS7_sign 3
123and once to output the S/MIME message.
124.Pp
125If streaming is performed, the content is output in BER format using
126indefinite length constructed encoding except in the case of signed
127data with detached content where the content is absent and DER
128format is used.
129.Sh RETURN VALUES
130Upon successful completion, 1 is returned;
131otherwise 0 is returned and an error code can be retrieved with
132.Xr ERR_get_error 3 .
133.Sh SEE ALSO
134.Xr i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream 3 ,
135.Xr PEM_write_bio_PKCS7_stream 3 ,
136.Xr PEM_write_PKCS7 3 ,
137.Xr PKCS7_final 3 ,
138.Xr PKCS7_new 3 ,
139.Xr SMIME_read_PKCS7 3
140.Sh HISTORY
141.Fn SMIME_write_PKCS7
142first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.5 and has been available since
143.Ox 2.7 .
144.Sh BUGS
145.Fn SMIME_write_PKCS7
146always base64 encodes PKCS#7 structures.
147There should be an option to disable this.
148