How to send email using Objective-C code?

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How to send email using Objective-C code?

Im trying to send an email from my cocoa touch application using objC code. Is this possible? The documentation in XCode only had methods from the class CalAlarm, which is not the class Im looking for.

The email should contain:
1. Recipient email (duh)
2. Subject
3. Message

Thanks in advance

Posted on Sep 15, 2008 3:28 PM

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Answer 1

orangekay

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Sep 15, 2008 3:48 PM in response to Arcus2

You'd have to write the networking code yourself. There's no PHP-style mail() function in the framework.

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Answer 2

ericmeyers

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Sep 15, 2008 6:04 PM in response to Arcus2

You can, but you might not like the outcome.

Look into UIApplication's openURL using a mailto: style url.

The part you won't like is if opening the url is successful your app will quit.

Eric

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Arcus2 Author

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Sep 15, 2008 8:21 PM in response to ericmeyers

Yah, I dont like that outcome. Cant have the app quit since I want to send multiple emails.

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Answer 4

Sep 18, 2008 4:05 PM in response to Arcus2

Would this help? Just guessing, I've never written an application which sends email.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/MessageFram eworkReference/index.html

but it i deprecated in OS X 10.5.

Also, I found this.

http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/SBSendEmail/

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Answer 5

Sep 20, 2008 10:39 AM in response to Arcus2

I used an open source C++ library: jwSmtp vers. 1.32.15 see johnwiggins.net/jwsmtp;
it also let you send attachments.

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hhas

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Sep 20, 2008 11:03 AM in response to Arcus2

Arcus2 wrote:
Im trying to send an email from my cocoa touch application using objC code. Is this possible?

Pantomime is a general-purpose mail framework, but since you mention Touch (and I believe the SDK for that is still NDA'd so can't be discussed in public) I've no idea if it'll be any use to you.

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