Re: How to send email without using email client
Re: How to send email without using email client
- Subject: Re: How to send email without using email client
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 11:03:40 -0700
On May 9, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
You can also send mail pretty easily by using NSTask to invoke /usr/
bin/sendmail — the parameters are pretty simple, check the man page.
Normally I'm not a big advocate of getting things done by running
Unix commands, but in this case the alternatives are all pretty
complex and involve a lot of 3rd party code.
This is typically a bad idea for another reason: With the amount of
spam in circulation today, many - If not most - mail servers now flat
out reject email that is not sent from reputable mail servers, where
by reputable I mean a combination of:
* Is not flagged as a spam relay
* Doesn't live on a dynamic IP block
* Has valid reverse pointer DNS configured
* Pass SPF validation
* et.c.
I think that the only safe approach is to use existing mail servers,
either one that the user provides, or one that your company /
organization can provide for the purpose of supporting your
application. This still leaves the original question unanswered of
course...
This is a very good "third party opportunity" for someone who would
like to make a name for themselves in the Cocoa community - much like
Sparkle, Growl, et.c.
j o a r
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