Is it possible for my iOS app to access the user's email inbox in the Mail app? I would like to be able to read the emails and save the attachments.
No. Apple doesn't provide an API for that.
However, you're free to ask the user for their mail server settings and then talk directly to an IMAP server, downloading the attachments yourself.
If you have presets for popular email providers (MobileMe, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) this won't have to be too difficult for most users to deal with.
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with google framework, Google/AppInvite
How can we add the list of emails for GINInvite object to send the invitation? I'm not getting any way to invite the list of emails I'm getting from my webApi
Is it possible to prefill users to send app invitation?
How?
Thank you
Looking at the documentation for App Invites, there's absolutely no exposure of any e-mail or user information going in or out. It looks like Google is being privacy-minded here and would prefer that users have total control as to how invites get addressed.
I have been asked to create an Email client for Android/ios.
I have been looking at Cordova to create this email client app.
There is a cordova-plugin-email-composer plugin to send mails, but I am wondering how to receive Emails through Imap, and store them.
Can anyone advise on this? Or maybe suggest an alternative for Cordova to create a hybrid mail client app?
SMTP (sending mails) is the easier task in cordova, even with mailto:yourname#mailserver.com?subject=...&body=... in the href-attribute in HTML5 you can send an e-mail on mobile devices cross plattform.What you need is a library for IMAP and/or POP3 access in cordova.
I look for the same plugin in Cordova, to write an OpenSource-App as Messenger replacement for WhatsApp using existing Mailserver. This has many advantages:
This OpenSource-App could use existing Infrastructure for sending and receiving messages and attachments as mails. No need to set up new server infrastructure
Messengers like WhatApp are popular and users like that quick communication style.
There is no need to provide my communication to DCC (Data Collecting Company) like Facebook for WhatsApp. Everyone could use the mail server she/or he prefers.
You can receive messages and send messages on a desktop computer with a regular mail client, cross-plattform and cross devices
Basic concept used from AT6FUI
I'm making an iOS app and the user has to enter their info to register for an account. I'm wanting to make it so that it sends an email to the provided email account with the info that they just entered. But I don't want them to be able to see the email view. Is there a way to send an email in the background in iOS 7? I'm familiar with the SMTP Gmail workaround but I was wondering if there was anything more generic.
There is no documented API available using which you can perform this.
send this detail to your server via web service and than server will send the email using that detail.
I am new one Iphone developer
How to access device login mail inbox in my application. It is possible or not.
please help me.
No. Apple doesn't provide an API for that.
However, you're free to ask the user for their mail server settings and then talk directly to an IMAP server, downloading the mail/attachments yourself.
If you have presets for popular email providers (MobileMe, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) this won't have to be too difficult for most users to deal with.
Suppose I have an email address that only receives a specific type of email, i.e. an automatically generated receipt email from a transaction.
I would like to build an iOS app to receive the email text from this email address and parse according to a predefined format and display the results. Is it possible to do this without dealing with the email server directly from the app?
Meaning can I for instance piggyback off the native mail client (assuming it is set up to receive pushed email sent to the email address). I tried looking through Apple's docs for iOS but could not find anything useful. Anyone know of something?
3rd party apps have no way to integrate with the Mail app or to make use of any configured mail account the user has setup on the device.
However, you can write an app that can access external email accounts if the user provides all of the usual email account details. The App Store has several 3rd party mail apps that serve as replacements for Apple's Mail app.
If your app is written to work with a specific email account, and not one entered by the user of the app, then you can hardcode all of the account details in the app.
Your app is basically a run of the mill email client. You just have to know how to access IMAP or POP3 accounts, retrieve the emails, and process them as needed.
Again, there is no way your app can intercept or make use of any emails accessed by any email accounts the user has setup for use with the standard Mail app.
There are at least two aspects to your question:
How do I get an email to open in my iOS app?
Put the data in an attachment and see this link
What format can I use in an email attachment to transport persistent
objects?
I've had decent results with NSKeyedArchive as an interchange format. There are lots of other choices, depending on what generates the receipts attachments.
Post a followup with your choices. Good luck!