On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Rob McBroom <mailingli...@skurfer.com> wrote:
> Hello. I’m trying to read Mail’s preferences to find a suitable SMTP server > so users don’t have to re-enter such configuration details. It seems to have > stopped working and I can’t find a [documented] reason. > > I’ve tried > > NSUserDefaults *mailPrefs = [[NSUserDefaults alloc] init]; > NSArray *smtpList = [[mailPrefs persistentDomainForName:@"com.apple.mail"] > objectForKey:@"DeliveryAccounts"]; > > and > > NSArray *mailPrefs = (__bridge NSArray > *)CFPreferencesCopyValue((CFStringRef)@"DeliveryAccounts", > (CFStringRef)@"com.apple.mail", kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, > kCFPreferencesAnyHost); > > but neither return any results on a 10.8 system. My application is not > sandboxed. Mail is, but so is TextEdit and I have no problem reading its > prefs. > > Any ideas? Thanks. This is obviously non-ideal, but in the absence of a better solution, you could use the /usr/bin/defaults program. I just tried it, and it appears to be able to read and write from Mail's defaults domain successfully. Charles _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
