How to send email from the iPhone application??

[ashishbhatt12]

Hi,
I am developing iPhone Application in which I want to send email to any particular email address.
So, how can I do that? Do I have to open iPhone inbuilt Mail application? Is there any inbuilt API or Class to send email.? I am totally confused how to do this. Your any answer will be appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,
Ashish Bhatt,
indiaNIC Infotech Ltd.,
Ahmedabad,Gujarat,
India.

[javid.alimohideen]

Ashish,
Currently, there is no API to call Mail's functionality, you would have to launch the Mail application from your application. But remember, when you do this it will close your application and open mail app, as third-party apps are not allowed to run in background.

-(void) sendEmail {
  NSURL* mailURL = [NSURL URLWithString: @"mailto:foo@example.com?cc=bar@example.com&subject=Greetings%20from%Cupertino!&body=Wish%20you%20were%20here!"];
  [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: mailURL];
}

[jeff_lamarche]

Generally, Javid's solution is the one Apple would like you to use. In general, you shouldn't be sending stuff on the sly without the user's knowledge, but if you really need to send e-mail in your application at a time when you can't quit, then it's relatively easy to do if you're comfortable with socket programming. Apple removed the Objective-C mail delivery classes with Leopard, and there's no sendmail program running on the iPhone AFAIK, so that means you'll need to handle to communication with the server yourself. It's not that hard if you've done socket programming before - SMTP is a simple text-based protocol, but if you're not comfortable with either socket programming or CFNetwork, then you've got a lot of groundwork to cover first.

Remember, though, Objective-C is a superset of C, so if you can find C source code to do what you want, you can probably use it as long as it doesn't rely on any external libraries that don't exist on the iPhone...

[scottiphone]

Guess part of the questions is will Apple approve apps that do that type of thing.
Obviously dependent on the particular app.

[jeff_lamarche]

and on how closely they look at the apps. It's still unanswered what the level of scrutiny will be and they will judge, which probably should make us all a little nervous.

[bonehead]

Originally Posted by jeff_lamarche

and on how closely they look at the apps. It's still unanswered what the level of scrutiny will be and they will judge, which probably should make us all a little nervous.

Completely agreed. One of the biggest hurdles we face is that there is going to be a tremendous bottleneck at Apple filtering through all these applications. There's been a similar bottleneck at Verizon for years, and it's difficult for good new applications to push through the noise.

[pacific inter]

that way you can send almost every character exept "&" how to fix it?