Swift Send Email with MailGun

Question

Problem

I would like to use the MailGun service to send emails from a pure Swift app.

Research So Far

As I understa

Answer 1

requests.post sends an HTTP POST request, encoding key/value pairs as application/x-www-form-urlencoded. You need to do the same.

• convert the set of key-value pairs into application/x-www-form-urlencoded as per How to escape the HTTP params in Swift
• compose the request using the resulting string for data & send it as per iOS : http Post using swift

Answer 2

Swift 3 answer:

    func test() {
        let session = URLSession.shared
        var request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: "https://api.mailgun.net/v3/sandbox(Personal info).mailgun.org/messages")!)
        request.httpMethod = "POST"
        let data = "from: Excited User <(Personal info)>&to: [bar@example.com,(Personal info)]&subject:Hello&text:Testinggsome Mailgun awesomness!"
        request.httpBody = data.data(using: .ascii)
        request.setValue("key-(Personal info)", forHTTPHeaderField: "api")
        let task = session.dataTask(with: request, completionHandler: {(data, response, error) in

            if let error = error {
                print(error)
            }
            if let response = response {
                print("url = \(response.url!)")
                print("response = \(response)")
                let httpResponse = response as! HTTPURLResponse
                print("response code = \(httpResponse.statusCode)")
            }


        })
        task.resume()
    }

Answer 3

I spent hours trying to get the selected answer working, but to no avail.

Although I was finally able to get this working properly with a large HTTP response. I put the full path into Keys.plist so that I can upload my code to github and broke out some of the arguments into variables so I can have them programmatically set later down the road.

// Email the FBO with desired information
// Parse our Keys.plist so we can use our path
var keys: NSDictionary?

if let path = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("Keys", ofType: "plist") {
    keys = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: path)
}

if let dict = keys {
    // variablize our https path with API key, recipient and message text
    let mailgunAPIPath = dict["mailgunAPIPath"] as? String
    let emailRecipient = "bar@foo.com"
    let emailMessage = "Testing%20email%20sender%20variables"

    // Create a session and fill it with our request
    let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()
    let request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: mailgunAPIPath! + "from=FBOGo%20Reservation%20%3Cscheduler@<my domain>.com%3E&to=reservations@<my domain>.com&to=\(emailRecipient)&subject=A%20New%20Reservation%21&text=\(emailMessage)")!)

    // POST and report back with any errors and response codes
    request.HTTPMethod = "POST"
    let task = session.dataTaskWithRequest(request, completionHandler: {(data, response, error) in
        if let error = error {
            print(error)
        }

        if let response = response {
            print("url = \(response.URL!)")
            print("response = \(response)")
            let httpResponse = response as! NSHTTPURLResponse
            print("response code = \(httpResponse.statusCode)")
        }
    })
    task.resume()
}

The Mailgun Path is in Keys.plist as a string called mailgunAPIPath with the value:

https://API:key-<my key>@api.mailgun.net/v3/<my domain>.com/messages?

Hope this offers a solution to anyone else having issues with MailGun and wanting to avoid a 3rd party solution!

Answer 4

In python, the auth is being passed in the header.

You have to do a http post request, passing both the header and the body.

This is a working code:

func test() {
        let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()
        let request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: "https://api.mailgun.net/v3/sandbox(Personal info).mailgun.org/messages")!)
        request.HTTPMethod = "POST"
        let data = "from: Excited User <(Personal info)>&to: [bar@example.com,(Personal info)]&subject:Hello&text:Testinggsome Mailgun awesomness!"
        request.HTTPBody = data.dataUsingEncoding(NSASCIIStringEncoding)
        request.setValue("key-(Personal info)", forHTTPHeaderField: "api")
        let task = session.dataTaskWithRequest(request, completionHandler: {(data, response, error) in

            if let error = error {
                print(error)
            }
            if let response = response {
                print("url = \(response.URL!)")
                print("response = \(response)")
                let httpResponse = response as! NSHTTPURLResponse
                print("response code = \(httpResponse.statusCode)")
            }


        })
        task.resume()
    }