Send programatic email through Objective-C

Question

In an iPhone app I'm developing, I need to send an email programmatically (read, not allowing the user to see where the email is going) similar to the PHP mail() function. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There's no way to do this in iPhone OS 3.0 (without jailbreaking, of course). To send email, you must use the MFMailComposeViewController.

Answer 2

There are some libraries that might help. Take a look http://vafer.org/blog/20080604120118. However, you'll have to provide SMTP details, which is not ideal. As Ben says you can't send a mail from the users account without going through MFMailComposeViewController.