Question

I’ve been looking around for a framework to simply allow me to send an email from inside my app. I have tried MailCore, Pantomime and SKPSMTP all with no luck. I can’t get them to compile in Xcode, so I presumed they were outdated. Is there any way I can do this? If so, how? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can easily send emails from your iOS device. No need to implement SMTP and all. Best thing about using inbuilt emailing facilities in iOS is it gives you access to the address book! So it auto-completes names, email addresses. Yaaiiii!!

Include, AddressBook,AddressBookUI and MessageUI frameworks and code something like this. Note you can even choose to send content as HTML too!

#import <MessageUI/MessageUI.h>
#import <AddressBook/AddressBook.h>
#import <AddressBookUI/AddressBookUI.h>

MFMailComposeViewController *mailComposer; 
mailComposer  = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
mailComposer.mailComposeDelegate = self;
[mailComposer setModalPresentationStyle:UIModalPresentationFormSheet];
[mailComposer setSubject:@"your custom subject"];
[mailComposer setMessageBody:@"your custom body content" isHTML:NO];
[self presentModalViewController:mailComposer animated:YES];
[mailComposer release];

For the sake of completeness, I have to write this selector to dismiss the email window if the user presses cancel or send –

- (void)mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController*)controller 
          didFinishWithResult:(MFMailComposeResult)result
                        error:(NSError*)error 
{ 
    if(error) NSLog(@"ERROR - mailComposeController: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
    [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
    return;
}

Happy coding…