That's a good point that I hadn't given much thought to what happens when the net is down. I wasn't too worried about only supporting Mail.app because I was going to give them a way to also enter their smtp settings manually. But using your framework that only supports 3 mailers with no thunderbird and no access to web based mail ( for people who use it via web) seems like a pretty big problem also. I wonder if the solution might be a framework that sends it directly via smtp but which automatically caches it and tries to keep resending if the net is down? Kind of a mini sendmail in your app. Of course there'd be issues about what happens if your app has quit, but that's probably ok for most situations. I guess even a background helper could be done for that kind of like Growl has an auto install framework.
Sometimes like Growl, an open source framework will fix what Apple won't do. -- Chris On 01/06/2010, at 4:02 AM, Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> wrote: On 28 May 2010, at 07:02, Chris Idou wrote: I've got an app that needs to send out emails. I'm trying to import mail settings from Mail.app. For some reason my keychain has passwords for smtp.gmail.com, but not for smtp.me.com. Does anyone know where Mail.app stores other passwords? Or why my keychain has smtp.gmail.com passwords, but not passwords for other smtp servers I have setup in Mail.app? Hi Chris, As an aside, I hope you've filed a bug report asking for a system-provided e-mail sending framework that sends messages via the user's preferred mail client? Sending them direct isn't ideal because it won't work if the user's Internet connection is down, and trying to grab their settings from Keychain isn't going to work very well for people using Eudora or Thunderbird or some such. Our software relies on a framework we built that uses AppleScript to drive some of the popular mail clients (not Thunderbird though - no AppleScript support AFAICT); this avoids the whole problem, but sadly it isn't possible to send rich e-mail this way through most clients. If you're interested, you can grab it here: <http://www.coriolis-systems.com/opensource/> Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net _______________________________________________ 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
