Thanks for the reply. I'll likely go this route for now and just exclude support for all non-Mail.app clients.
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Tim Schröder <t...@timschroeder.net> wrote: > Lorenzo, > > at least with Thunderbird I have found it impossible to communicate with > from a Cocoa app. Mail.app, Entourage, Outlook 2011 and Postbox should work > with AppleScript which you can address from within your app with the > NSAppleScript class. In principle, you just need to give an instance of > NSAppleScript the name of the email application and the script code > necessary to create a new message and to attach a file to it. The path to > the file to be attached can be part of the script code. For example, the > script code to accomplish that with Postbox should be like "tell application > "Postbox" .. activate .. send message attachment [path to file] .. end > tell". However, for scriptable clients you will need different script code > as they all use their own 'dialects' of AppleScript. > > On how to determine the default mail application, I usually use > LSGetApplicationForURL passing "mailto:";. > > Best, > > Tim > > > > Am 01.02.2011 um 23:13 schrieb lorenzo7...@gmail.com: > > > How can one go about doing this and support 10.4-10.6? There are links > all over the place pointing to deprecated API's (NSMailDelivery) or > frameworks that are 10.5+ (EDMessage, Scripting Bridge), but nothing I can > use. All I want to do is open the default mail application, create a new > message, attach a file and then allow the user to address it and send. That > should not be too difficult, I should think. Is an Automator action the way > to go? Can someone help me out? > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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/tim%40timschroeder.net > > > > This email sent to t...@timschroeder.net > > -- "My break-dancing days are over, but there's always the funky chicken" --The Full Monty _______________________________________________ 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
