NSSharingService with email for 3rd-party apps

Hi ZulfiShah,

I am facing the same issue.

1.

My investigation tells me that, this is the expected behaviour.

Additionally, if you add an if clause like:

if ([ sharingServiceObject canPerformWithItems:shareItems])

it will not enter the if condition unless the default client selected is the Mail app

2.

A workaround for the same could be detecting the default mail app through apple script and running a suitable script for that app. And use MailTo in cases where you can't detect the default mail client.

This isn't a robust solution as you never know what client could the user use and the script for each client would be different.

For further reading:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2011/Feb/msg00020.html

As of February 2023, this code DOES launch Outlook, but will NOT attach a document to the Outlook-created email:

` NSString* msgText = @"This is text for the body of the email"; NSMutableAttributedString *maStr = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:msgText attributes:@{ } ];

NSSharingService* mailShare = [NSSharingService sharingServiceNamed:NSSharingServiceNameComposeEmail];
NSArray* shareItems = @[maStr, fileToSendURL];

[mailShare performWithItems:shareItems];`

Anyone?

I have this problem too. Thunderbird is another email client that does not receive attachments, even though canPerformWithItems: returns YES and the delegate's error callback is not called. I've filed FB13507726 about it.