iPhone Programming Tutorial – Using openURL To Send Email From Your App

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 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

Hardy,

Thank you. Works like a charm!

It dosn’t work

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

Why ?

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

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

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

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

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

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];

I mean a href = “” tag

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…

really nice post.

Can I send Attachment with E-mail?

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.

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

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

Thanks!

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.

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

Ta for the information, very usefull

Hi,

How can I add attachment if I use openurl mailto?

-Nat

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];
}

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

Thanks for posting the info on this app!