Comments on: Sending emails from Cocoa

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:33:56 +0000

I would love to use it, I have the same problem as you. I need a opensource framework for pop3 and imap.

By: tcurdt

tcurdt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:12:27 +0000

You would probably have to add that to EDMessage. Don't think there is a callback delegate yet. See EDMailAgent.m

By: krist

krist — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:37:36 +0000

I'm using EDMessage to add email support to my app.
but how do I track the upload progress?

By: Cocoa and email (SMTP/POP3)

Cocoa and email (SMTP/POP3) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:25:13 +0000

[...] there would be a simple way to send email in Cocoa, but a quick search on Google only turned up http://vafer.org/blog/20080604120118, which dates from 2008. I had a look at each of the projects mentioned there though, but none of [...]

By: tcurdt

tcurdt — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:00:56 +0000

No, I didn’t have to create a cert. (Why would you?) And I am pretty sure I just linked against the standard SSL library. It’s been a while but IIRC it worked quite straight forward. Sorry.

By: Marco Gaertner

Marco Gaertner — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:32:39 +0000

@Andrew, how do I email you? I would like the code. My email is yes–at–gaertners.org

@tcurdt, I just have a bunch of customizations and code written around pantomime. It’s working fine for years now, but now I need to implement SSL. I wanted to know if you need to make a certificate (how), which library version you used, where did you place it in the folders (the code calls for openssl/ssl.h, but that’s not the regular way openssl comes in), if you had to compile openssl before linking to it, how you mixed C and Objective-C. etc.

It would be much appreciated..

By: tcurdt

tcurdt — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:54:35 +0000

@Andrew: What about just throwing it up on github so we can easily help out with the polishing?

@Marco: Really wondering about the “need” to use Pantomime. But the above code also worked just fine for me with SSL. Just make sure it’s also really a SMTP over SSL or a TLS server answering on the port you provide. IIRC Pantomime wasn’t handling it too well if it wasn’t the case and you tried SSL anyway.

By: Andrew Pouliot

Andrew Pouliot — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:21:25 +0000

Referring to my above mention of an open-source solution, anyone please feel free to email me for the code. I’m too lazy at the moment to really package it for public distro, but it’s a single class that only needs CocoaAsyncSocket. Supports gmail SMTP, STARTTLS + direct SSL, but pretty basic in general.

By: Marco Gaertner

Marco Gaertner — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:06:33 +0000

Hi! I know you’ve moved away from Pantomime, but I really need to use it. It’s working great right now, with the exception of SSL. Would you be a great savior and provide just a few hints on how to do it? I can’t find the info anywhere.

By: tcurdt

tcurdt — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:21:56 +0000

@Mark: Yes, I got that working fine. But I ended up having other problems with Pantomime. (Crashes!) So I am also in the middle of moving away from Pantomime. There is a new release of EDMessage. Unfortunately it was not building for 10.4. So I fixed that an put a Tiger/Leopard compatible version up on github. It still does not have asynchronous sending but I guess I will just wrap it in a NSThread for now.