MailCore 2: Introduction
MailCore 2 provides a simple and asynchronous Objective-C API to work with the e-mail protocols IMAP, POP and SMTP. The API has been redesigned from the ground up. It features:
- POP, IMAP and SMTP support
- RFC822 parser and generator
- Asynchronous APIs
- HTML rendering of messages
- iOS and Mac support
Installation
Build for iOS/OSX
Read instructions for iOS/OSX.
Build for Android
Read instructions for Android.
Build for Windows
Read instructions for Windows.
Build for Linux
Read instructions for Linux.
Basic IMAP Usage
Using MailCore 2 is just a little more complex conceptually than the original MailCore. All fetch requests in MailCore 2 are made asynchronously through a queue. What does this mean? Well, let's take a look at a simple example:
let session = MCOIMAPSession()
session.hostname = "imap.gmail.com"
session.port = 993
session.username = "[email protected]"
session.password = "123456"
session.connectionType = .TLS
let folder = "INBOX"
let uids = MCOIndexSet(range: MCORange(location: 1, length: UInt64.max))
if let fetchOperation = session.fetchMessagesOperation(withFolder: folder, requestKind: .headers, uids: uids) {
fetchOperation.start { error, fetchedMessages, vanishedMessages in
// We've finished downloading the messages!
// Let's check if there was an error
if let error = error {
print("Error downloading message headers: \(error.localizedDescription)")
}
// And, let's print out the messages:
print("The post man delivereth: \(fetchedMessages.debugDescription)")
}
}(You can also read an Objective-C Version)
In this sample, we retrieved and printed a list of email headers from an IMAP server. In order to execute the fetch, we request an asynchronous operation object from the MCOIMAPSession instance with our parameters (more on this later). This operation object is able to initiate a connection to Gmail when we call the start method. Now here's where things get a little tricky. We call the start function with a block, which is executed on the main thread when the fetch operation completes. The actual fetching from IMAP is done on a background thread, leaving your UI and other processing free to use the main thread.
Documentation
License
MailCore 2 is BSD-Licensed.
