Diane I accept (with a heavy heart :-( that Google is not interested in providing for this, but I do believe it is a valid requirement.
First let me clarify that I have no interest in accessing the user's personal account information from my app. I would ideally like an android api that protects this info and just allows my app to invoke a sendmail method with subject, body etc. Under the covers the api would access the personal account credentials of so it can connect to the smtp server. Second, consider the following use cases where this requirement comes up: - A salesforce phone app is set up to always send an email to the sales supervisor when a customer support person updates a customer ticket. The email is automatic and informational - A service rep (cable guy) app is set up to automatically email the service supervisor, when a rep leaves the location of his/her last service order. - A game is set up to automatically email the highest score to all members of a game-group In all cases, the app would advertise the auto-email as a feature, that the user can opt into or out of. thx jay On Dec 6, 2:13 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need to go through the UI of the mailer activity, so the user can select > which app to use etc. Adding support for allowing applications to get at > the user's personal e-mail information and send on their behalf without > their interaction (but some other way to inform them that the app is doing > this) is not a high priority for the platform; actually, I would personally > much prefer that apps go through the mail UI so the user can be aware of and > confirm whatever some non-mail app is sending on their behalf. > > As a user, wouldn't you prefer this too? :} > > > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Jay-andro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I too want to send email programmtaically (i.e without a send form). > > I've got it working with my hardcoded credentials, but I want my app > > to use the user's account to send the email from the user's account > > and receive replies to his account. How do I do this? > > > On Nov 12, 10:51 am, "Sunit Katkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you. I will try this. > > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > You can find a code snippet here: > > > >http://www.openintents.org/en/node/121 > > > > > There is also a related SENDTO action which you can look up in the > > > > documentation. > > > > > Peli > > > >www.openintents.org > > > > > On Nov 12, 8:52 am, "Sunit Katkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ok how would I implement the 'send form'. Do you mean that I should > > > > launch a > > > > > web browser and use some webmail type of application hosted on a > > server? > > > > > I was thinking about the Email Outbox. How can I put a simple text > > > > message > > > > > as an email in the Outbox? I know I could do this long long ago with > > Palm > > > > OS > > > > > ver3.0. Hope there is a way to do it on Android. > > > > > > - Sunit > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Andrew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > If you don't want to direct the user to the typical send form, then > > > > you're > > > > > > going to have to either try and adapt an existing java based mailer > > to > > > > > > android or write an SMTP client from scratch. The SMTP standard > > isn't > > > > too > > > > > > hard to implement. > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Sunit Katkar < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > >> Any ideas? Any pointers to some examples? > > > > > > >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Sunit Katkar < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > >>> Suppose I have an Activity which has couple of text fields - one > > for > > > > the > > > > > >>> subject and one for body text. > > > > > >>> And there is a simple Button. When user clicks the button, I wish > > to > > > > send > > > > > >>> the text in the textfields via email to a predetermined email > > > > address. > > > > > >>> How can I achieve this? > > > > > > >>> Sorry for being lazy and not looking up the SDK docs :) > > > > > > >>> PS: I have configured the EMAIL app on G1 using the Email setup > > > > steps, so > > > > > >>> it can receive and send email from my email account. > > > > > > >>> -- > > > > > >>> - Sunit Katkar > > > > > >>>http://sunitkatkar.blogspot.com/-AndroidOS Tutorials > > > > > > >> -- > > > > > >> - Sunit Katkar > > > > > >>http://sunitkatkar.blogspot.com/-AndroidOS Tutorials > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Andrew Burgess > > > > > > -- > > > > > - Sunit Katkarhttp://sunitkatkar.blogspot.com/-AndroidOS Tutorials > > > > -- > > > - Sunit Katkarhttp://sunitkatkar.blogspot.com/-Android OS Tutorials > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support. 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