What is the suggested way - or the needed entitlement - or some such other strategy - to be able to send an eMail from a sandboxed app in MacOSX 10.7+ ?
As best I can tell - it is not possible to invoke sendmail from a sandboxed app - nor is it possible to use a Script Bridge to the Apple MAIL applicaiton.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
The Apple-approved way would be use NSWorkspace to open a "mail:" URL. That would route the message through the user's e-mail application and allow the user to compose the message. You don't need any entitlement for that. You could use a standard network entitlement and compose and send the message yourself. That would be a fair amount of work and would require your own SMTP configuration. You could invoke sendmail, but you would have to have your own config files for it. Email is a royal pain to configure though. Even if you weren't sandboxed, sending e-mail would still be a royal hassle. Do you have to use e-mail? Do you have to use local e-mail? An easy solution would be to have your app make a request to your own server somewhere that would send the e-mail.
Hi etresoft -
After a little more investigation, I discovered how it is possible to enable the ability to send email from a sandboxed app by way of a "com.apple.security.temporary-exception.apple-events" entitlement array with item of "com.apple.mail".
Of course, like it says, this is a TEMPORARY fix - and that capability could be revoked by Apple at any time.
I also discovered that, via WEBKIT, you can embed a "mailto:" reference in a 'webpage' that is a clickable link such that the User can click on the link and your local MAIL app will open a new message with everything pretty much all filled out. Check out "http://www.mailto.co.uk/" for some examples and inspiration.
My HTML example... slightly different from the image below... but basically the idea...
<a href="mailto:lance@drake.org?cc=lance@vuserland.com&subject=This%20is%20the%20subject&body=This%20is%20the%20body%20of%20the%20emai l">Here's a sample 'Send email' test</a>
As for the more long-term solution, I think that the APNS Push Notifications will probably fill the bill for me - although, it appears rather complicated to get that capability up and running.
How to send email from a sandboxed Mac OS app?
