Ok, I'll bite. How does the mail server that Mail.app is talking to distinguish between Mail.app and /usr/sbin/sendmail ? They both presumably just talk SMTP ?
If the scriptable solution works, then roll-your-own-smtp should also work, provided you go the hard yards and implement everything it requires (like the tricky authentication stuff). And I'd have thought that /usr/bin/sendmail should do that just fine? Am I missing some subtlety? -----Original Message----- From: cocoa-dev-bounces+jeff.laing=spatialinfo....@lists.apple.com [mailto:cocoa-dev-bounces+jeff.laing=spatialinfo....@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of Nick Zitzmann Sent: Wednesday, 24 June 2009 2:14 PM To: Dave DeLong Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Cocoa and email (SMTP/POP3) On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Dave DeLong wrote: > 3.5: Use /usr/sbin/sendmail: Create an NSTask that launches /usr/ > sbin/sendmail, configures the headers, and then just pipes your > email through the task's standardInput. I can't really recommend doing that in a non-internal app, though, because if the user only has a static IP address and no domain name, then a good deal of mail servers won't accept the mail from the host unless they identify using a fake host name and get lucky. Nick Zitzmann <http://www.chronosnet.com/> _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jeff.laing%40spatialinfo.com This email sent to jeff.la...@spatialinfo.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
