ThirdPartyMailer

Interact with third-party iOS mail clients, using custom URL schemes.

Supported mail clients

Unfortunately, not all mail clients offer URL schemes to be supported by ThirdPartyMailer. If you’re aware of another candidate, please let us know.

How to install

Swift Package Manager

In Xcode, click on the “File” menu, “Swift Packages”, “Add Package Dependency…”, then enter the URL for this repo: https://github.com/vtourraine/ThirdPartyMailer.git.

CocoaPods

With CocoaPods, simply add ThirdPartyMailer to your Podfile:

pod 'ThirdPartyMailer'

Or, you can manually import the files from the Sources folder.

How to use

Getting the list of supported clients

let clients = ThirdPartyMailClient.clients

Testing the client availability (i.e. if the app is installed)

⚠️ In order to test the client availability, your app needs to declare the relevant URL scheme in its Info.plist file, by adding a LSApplicationQueriesSchemes array. You can find an example here, or check out the documentation.

if ThirdPartyMailer.isMailClientAvailable(client) {
    // ...
}

Opening the client (with optional message recipient, subject, body, cc, and bcc)

ThirdPartyMailer.openCompose(client, recipient: "[email protected]")

ThirdPartyMailer.openCompose(client, recipient: "[email protected]", subject: "Hello", body: "Good morning…", cc: "[email protected]", bcc: "[email protected]")

🆕 Using the system default mail client

If you don’t specify a client, the openCompose(…) function will use .systemDefault, a client defined for the standard mailto: scheme. By default, it will open Apple Mail, but if the user has selected a custom mail client (iOS 14), it will automatically open it instead.

ThirdPartyMailer.openCompose(recipient: "[email protected]")

Requirements

ThirdPartyMailer is written in Swift 5.0, requires iOS 10.0 and above, Xcode 10.2 and above.

Credits

ThirdPartyMailer was created by Vincent Tourraine.

License

ThirdPartyMailer is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE.txt file for more info.