Oh I didn’t know this functionality. Great ^^

I was implementing something similar this week and was having issues with European characters (umlats and such) getting encoded for the URL string. Unforunatley, I was unable to figure out why encoded euro chars were breaking the string. The nslog showed the string encoded them properly, but they would chop the string when passed to the mail client. Any thoughts?

I tried to run the code, but, it gave a good 400+ errors–something about frameworks not being there–I tried to drag the 3 frameworks from the finder, but, that seems to have not done anything.

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I had some issue with just using stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding. After some help from Apple I ended up with the following work around. You should run this preprocessor on the body of the email to get a good encoded string for the body. Also using the UTF8 encoding will help with the above commenter’s accented character issue.

CFStringRef nonAlphaNumValidChars = CFSTR(“!$&’()*+,-./:;=?@_~”);
CFStringRef preprocessedString = CFURLCreateStringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(kCFAllocatorDefault, (CFStringRef)body, CFSTR(“”), kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
CFStringRef bodyCFS = CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes(kCFAllocatorDefault,preprocessedString,NULL,nonAlphaNumValidChars,kCFStringEncodingUTF8);

Hardy

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Hardy,

Thank you. Works like a charm!

I have a working code very similar to that one. But I have a problem… Since I am trying to export data from my application, it can be quite an amount of data. And it seems that this method truncates the body… Do you know anything related to this issue?

It dosn’t work

Unsuported URL
“This URL wasn’t loaded: mailto:?to=******@yahoo.fr&subject=test&body=Check%20ou%20iCodeBlog.com!”

Why ?

hrmm.. for those of you who are getting errors. What are they? Do they happen with the sample code? Are you running 2.2.1?

stringWithFormat:@”mailto:%@?cc=%@&subject=%@&body=%@

This is what works for me. I believe mailto: has to be followed by addresses and not a ?

Can it do attachments?

this is pretty basic, but I guess it helps. I love your tuts

err, normally in html its, mailto:email@emailprov.com?subject=…..

just another piece of advice, I have never used & in my experience with web or iPhone,.

Can the owner or webmaster of this site email me in regards to posting some of your tutorials on my site

As another user asked, can it load attachments like the photo library does?

Hi!
What is the easiest way to install a program to my iphone, what i made in xcode?
Thanks

Hi,

Email not sending from simulator.You have any idea.whats problem occur.

It doesn’t seem to work this way

NSString *toText = @”enter your email”;
NSString *to = [toText stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *subjectText = @”enter subject”;
NSString *subject = [subjectText stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *bodyText = @”enter body”;
NSString *body = [bodyText stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

NSString *urlString =
[NSString stringWithFormat:@"mailto:%@?subject=%@&body=%@", to, subject, body];
NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:urlString];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];

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The tag in mail’s body is disappeared in Mail app. How do it happen ?

I mean a href = “” tag

Hello,

Thanks For This – newbie here….

I’m trying to incorporate this code into Tab Controller based app I have.

What I have done:

Copied your delegate OpenMailDelegates to my program. Should I have just added the code to my current delegates?

Duplicated your main nib as SendEmail.xib and hooked everything up.

Added an Item to my Tab Bar Controller and set it to: Nib – SendEmail.xib

When I launch the program, all of my previous tabs work, the new tab however terminates due to uncaught exception.

Any suggestions on where to start will be much appreciated!

Thanks

Well -nothing like a little trial and error – got it working.

I wish there was a way to return to the app once the email has been sent…

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I just love your weblog! Very nice post! Still you can do many things to improve it.

really nice post.

Great post – creating the strings that will work like this seems tricky sometimes, but it is generally reasonable to use email from the iPhone. Wish it was possible to send file attachments (which coding our own email server). Most of my customers want detail CSV files exported somehow from my apps which are all information driven.

It doesn’t work in iPhone simulator since there is no Mail.app
It will work on the iPhone.

Can I send Attachment with E-mail?

How do you email multiple addresses without having to have multiple text areas like if I typed “peter” it would email to

peter@gmail.com
peter@yahoo.com
peter@aol.com

Hello everyone,
I am using this application(openmail) but i have some problem.when i run the app then fill up text field and press button then it gives me problem:

Unsupported URL

This URL wasn’t loaded:
mailto:?
to=rt@gmail.com&subject=sending email&body=Check%20out%20.
in alert.So,plz give me any suggestion when i am wrong.

I’m definitely bookmarking this site. Really great articles. Do you recommend any other readings?

after using the “openURL” method and sent message using mailto, how to come back to the application.

Just a small note: The code of bess works, but has a memory leak: the NSURL will not be released. Use URLWithString (as in the blog post) instead of alloc] initWithString. Or add an autorelease after initWithString. Then use an autoreleasepool (if there is none).

If you ever want to hear a reader’s feedback , I rate this article for four from five. Decent info, but I just have to go to that damn google to find the missed bits. Thank you, anyway!
p.s. Year One is already on the Internet and you can watch it for free.

I got an iPod touch a couple of days ago but I think I had better bought an iPhone

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I was wondering if there is a way to send a photo attached to the mail.

Thanks!

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Great tutorial. However, it’s worth mentioning that this only works on-device and not within the simulator (which is weird as openUrl with a http url works fine (i.e. launches safari) within the simulator)

hello there,

Having one ?…

can i attach file to this mail which i am sending.

i am trying to develop the same mail app.but in my app, i also need to attach file,so is there any way that if i provide the file then it will be automatically get attached to mail app.
like mail id and subject.

thanks for this! worked for us. big help. didn’t know you could encode different parts of a string differently. this shows how we used this but used an HTML string only for the body.

NSString *mailString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"mailto:?to=%@&subject=%@&body=%@",
[to stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding],
[subject stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding],
[finalEmailBody stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

jfm

I’m having the same issue as John -

I’m using a Tab Bar based application. In one of my tabs, which loads a separate nib, I want to use this mail function, so I copied the OpenMailAppDelegate files over to my nib. The issue I’m having is that I can’t (or, rather, don’t know how to) connect the delegate to the UIApplication, since it is contained in a different nib. Or, if I wanted to write the mail code in my application delegate, contained in a nib named MainWindow.xib, how to I connect its outlets to a view contained in another nib (QuizView.xib)?

Thanks for the help,

Ethan

my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide’.

Ta for the information, very usefull

Good post, adding it to my blog now, thanks

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Hi,

How can I add attachment if I use openurl mailto?

-Nat

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The iphone is still on my shopping list. I wish the price would go down a bit so I could afford one.

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Very helpful, Thanks a lot. I have one question thought. If I’ll have two text fields and two labels as a body how do I manage to send that? I tried, didn’t give me any error but e-mail is not sending. Any ideas?

fieldArray = [[NSArray arrayWithObjects:

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",txtBody.text],
[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",txtBody2.text], nil] retain];

- (void) sendEmailTo:(NSString *)to withSubject:(NSString *) subject withBody:(NSString *)body {
NSString *mailString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"mailto:?to=%@&subject=%@&body=%@",
[to stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding],
[subject stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding],
[body stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]];

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:mailString]];
}

[self sendEmailTo:[txtTo text] withSubject:[txtSubject text] withBody:fieldArray];

[fieldArray release];
}

This was a Fantastic write up, I will save this in my Diigo account. Have a awesome day.

Next time idiot make the source code TEXT and not a JPEG so we can copy and paste that shit!

I’ve been using box.net to upload text files from my app – My Bird Observations. It’s a file-sharing site. 2G space for free. Easy to use.

A Excellent blog post, I will be sure to save this in my StumbleUpon account. Have a awesome evening.

Thanks for posting the info on this app!

Haloadministrator I love with your news . May i use this information for my school test ? thank you adminstrator

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Why force the user to constantly leave your app????
(I thought you wanted people do *USE* your app, instead.)

Email can be sent directly from inside your app, instead.

Feed that code the EURO character… and it still returns nothing/error.

Hi

Have any one tested this sample code.if it works please let me know.for me its not working.
i have added the following code

NSString *url = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"mailto:foo@example.com"];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString: url]];
NSLog(@”Notes Closed%@”,url);

even i tried with the following :
—————————————–
NSString *url = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"mailto:?=foo@example.com"];

Thanks & Regards

Carol – do you have resources or sample code to e-mail inside the app?

Best you should edit the post subject title iPhone Programming Tutorial – Using openURL To Send Email From Your App | iCodeBlog to something more suited for your webpage you create. I enjoyed the the writing however.

hii,,

thanks for doing best.
this is good for sending mail but if I want retrive mail list or mail gata then what should I do for this…..

What the point to put some code into images!!! fucking dumbass

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Hello !
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i like it !!!

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I have downloaded project and tried to send mail but i am not receiving any email.I have tested through simulator.
Is it like that i have to use device only and what i have to do if i want to do it using iphone simulator?

You have to use a device real!!

hello it not worked on my mac i can not get mail….. if i change my id in to…

Hey, thanks for this and not to sound unappreciative but did you really have to make the code snippets images instead of text? Sure it looks nice but it’s highly resistant to copy+paste.

Please indicate which part goes into to .h and which into the .m
I receive the message that SendEmailTo undeclared. Where and how is it to be declared?

@bbff8f65565fdf7298dd66e3ef5aff77:disqus @nehal :do you have your account configured on the device you are tryin to send the mail from ?

and also it doesnt work on simulator, only on real devices as pointed out by @7c285ce480c502bdd4dfcd2c8b8d8968:disqus

4.3.3 iPad 1, nothing happens… a real device

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:mailString]];NSLog(@”Supposing to be opening email [%@]“,mailString);2011-05-11 23:37:20.659 Toolbox[3276:707] Supposing to be opening email [mailto:?to=monemail@domaine:disqus .com&subject=iOS Device Infos&body=Model:%20iPad%0AVersion:%20Version%204.3.3%20(Build%208J3)%0AMemory:%20246%20MB%0AUptime:%203d%209h%2046min%0toolbox:%20%5B0.2%5D%202011.05.11%0AUnique%20ID:%0A5cbdxxxxxxx7e6d0c19d7f]

my problem was that I had “spaces in the Subject”.
Thanks a lot for this, works fine on iPad1 and iPhone4, iOS 4.3.3 (but not in the simulator)

my problem was that I had “spaces in the Subject”.
Thanks a lot for this, works fine on iPad1 and iPhone4, iOS 4.3.3 (but not in the simulator)

my problem was that I had “spaces in the Subject”.
Thanks a lot for this, works fine on iPad1 and iPhone4, iOS 4.3.3 (but not in the simulator)

I want to test the above functionality from iphone simulator,
How can I test it?

You cant test it on a Simulator as there is no account set up on the simulator and even if there is i dont think you can test it.. But give it a try
Somethings dont work on simulator ..you need a real device to test it.
And please do let us know it it worked out.

can we send email from a third party server. They provided some url with .php extension. Please help me in this regard

How to send to email from this. I could’t get the result.

is this coding work work me if i want to send bulk mail from my apps??