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Overview

class to enable delivery of an email message using Mail.

Discussion

The NSMailDelivery class enables applications to send email messages using Mail. It includes the ability to send both plain text and MIME-encapsulated email messages through deliverMessage:headers:format:protocol:, and also provides a simplified interface, deliverMessage:subject:to:, for delivering basic messages easily.

Availability

Introduced in Mac OS X v10.0, but later deprecated in Mac OS X v10.5.

Methods

+deliverMessage:headers:format:protocol:

Deliver a message.

+deliverMessage:subject:to:

Deliver a message (basic)

+hasDeliveryClassBeenConfigured

Have delivery accounts have been configured?

Deliver a message.

+ (BOOL)deliverMessage: (NSAttributedString *)messageBody 
        headers: (NSDictionary *)messageHeaders format: (NSString *)messageFormat 
        protocol: (NSString *)deliveryProtocol; 

Parameters

messageBody

the actual contents of the message. If messageFormat is NSASCIIMailFormat, any rich text or attachments in messageBody will be lost.

messageHeaders

contains all of the values that will appear in the message header, for example, "To", "From", "Subject", etc. If the value is an array, the elements in the array will converted to a comma seperated list of values in the message header

messageFormat

can be either NSASCIIMailFormat or NSMIMEMailFormat

deliveryProtocol

can be NSSMTPDeliveryProtocol or nil to use the platform's default deliveryProtocol (this is the preferred choice).

Discussion

deliverMessage:headers:format:protocol: is used to deliver a message vie email. It may be MIME-encoded or plain text, but requires all header fields to be specified.

For a simpler (but less flexible) interface, see deliverMessage:subject:to:.

Availability

Introduced in Mac OS X v10.0, but later deprecated in Mac OS X v10.5.

Deliver a message (basic)

+ (BOOL)deliverMessage:(NSString *)messageBody subject:(NSString *)messageSubject 
        to:(NSString *)destinationAddress; 

Parameters

messageBody

is the plain text contents of the message

messageSubject

is the subject of the message

destinationAddress

is the recipient's email address, e.g. johndoe@apple.com

Discussion

deliverMessage:subject:to: is a method for delivering basic messages via email. For more complex requirements (such as MIME), see deliverMessage:headers:format:protocol:.

Availability

Introduced in Mac OS X v10.0, but later deprecated in Mac OS X v10.5.

Have delivery accounts have been configured?

+ (BOOL)hasDeliveryClassBeenConfigured; 

Discussion

hasDeliveryClassBeenConfigured returns YES/NO according to whether delivery accounts have been configured.

Availability

Introduced in Mac OS X v10.0, but later deprecated in Mac OS X v10.5.

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Last Updated: 2008-03-11