I want to send an email from my iPhone application. I have heard that the iOS SDK doesn't have an email API. I don't want to use the following code because it will exit my application:
NSString *url = [NSString stringWithString: @"mailto:foo@example.com?cc=bar@example.com&subject=Greetings%20from%20Cupertino!&body=Wish%20you%20were%20here!"];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: [NSURL URLWithString: url]];
So how can I send an email from my app?
MFMailComposeViewController is the way to go after the release of iPhone OS 3.0 software. You can look at the sample code or the tutorial I wrote.
A few things I'd like to add here:
Using the mailto URL won't work in the simulator as mail.app isn't installed on the simulator. It does work on device though.
There is a limit to the length of the mailto URL. If the URL is larger than 4096 characters, mail.app won't launch.
There is a new class in OS 3.0 that lets you send an e-mail without leaving your app. See the class MFMailComposeViewController.
If you want to send email from your application, the above code is the only way to do it unless you code your own mail client (SMTP) inside your app, or have a server send the mail for you.
For example, you could code your app to invoke a URL on your server which would send the mail for you. Then you simply call the URL from your code.
Note that with the above code you can't attach anything to the email, which the SMTP client method would allow you to do, as well as the server-side method.
