Comments on: In-App Email through MessageUI Kit

By: John Wordsworth

John Wordsworth — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:48:56 +0000

Hi Justin, I’m afraid that the in-app message kit uses the user’s default ‘from address’ from their email account settings. There is no way to change this as you are essentially just hooking into the core email API instead of having full access to the user’s mail accounts. You can of course set the to-address such that your email is being sent to a PHP script on a server somewhere – at which point you can do whatever you like with that email before forwarding it on to your final destination.

I’m afraid that if you want to send email with your own from address, you’re essentially going to have to write your own IMAP / POP client and talk to your own IMAP / POP server from the app to send that email. Obviously, you would also have to do all of the UI work too to retrieve the user’s details. Sorry there isn’t an easier solution!

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:34:12 +0000

Is there a way to set the from address different than the default iOS setting. What I vision is to have a setting within the settings to set the in app email to a different email address and when only working in that app the selected email will be used. Is this possible?

By: ZaldzBugz

ZaldzBugz — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:38:42 +0000

Thanks man, that was pretty clear and smooth. And for those who haven;t successfully run their email app. Maybe you missed out something in the @interface to import #import and include the protocol

-zaldzbugz