iOS: How to know if a mail account exist

Question

For my app, I need to know if there's a mail account has soon as the app is launched. Is there a way to do that ?

I don't really know what canSendMail does but it does not seems to verify that.

Thanks

Why exactly doesn't `canSendMail` (`MFMailComposeViewController`) work for you? As far as I'm aware, that's the only option you have. — omz, Aug 07 '11 at 17:35
Well I tested it on the simulator and it was always returning true. But you're right, on the device it does what I want — little, Aug 07 '11 at 18:07
ya with canSendMail you can check for the availability of wheater the account is configured or not .. — abhi.shah88, Aug 07 '11 at 18:09
I'm surprised that the documentation doesn't seem to mention this. The simulator will always return `YES`, because it can pretend to send mail, even though you can't actually create an email account there. It makes testing easier. — omz, Aug 07 '11 at 18:12

score 28 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '11 at 18:05

28

canSendMail is actually the right and only way to verify what you want.

if ([MFMailComposeViewController canSendMail]) {
    // device is configured to send mail
}

answered Aug 07 '11 at 18:05

Filip Radelic

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 18 '19 at 18:59

0

For those looking for a Xamarin solution it is available as a static property, so you can do it something like this:

MFMailComposeViewController.CanSendMail

answered Jul 18 '19 at 18:59

FreakyAli

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