Getting the Recepients list in MFMailComposeViewController - iphone

Question

I am using MFMailcomposerViewController in my App. Everything is working fine, except that I am in need to Have the no. of recipients and the list of recipients the user is sending to.
Any help or solution regarding this issue..

Answer 1

I dont there is a standard way to do this, the delegate method mailComposeController:didFinishWithResult:error: gives you a reference to the composer view controller after it has been dismissed, but there are no accessors on MFMailComposeViewController which you could use to get the recipient count
A workaround would be to examine the subviews of the view controller, find the text field which was used to hold the recipients and get the text: see here

Answer 2

Finally I got the Answer and wanted to share it... I took a great help from [blog]: http://jomnius.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-find-mfmailcomposeviewcontroller.html
for (int x=0; x<[emailArray count]-1; x++) {
NSLog(#"%d). %#",x+1,[emailArray objectAtIndex:x]);
NSString *element = [emailArray objectAtIndex:x];
NSArray *arr = [element componentsSeparatedByString:#" & "];
if ([arr count]==1) {
++emailCount;
}
else{
int more = [[[arr objectAtIndex:1] substringToIndex:1] intValue];
emailCount+=(more+1);
}
}
- (NSString *)findEmailAddresses:(UIView *)view depth:(NSInteger)count
{
NSString *eAddress = nil;
if (!view)
return eAddress;
NSMutableString *tabString = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:count];
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
[tabString appendString:#"-- "];
NSLog(#"%#%#", tabString, view);
if ([view isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]])
{
// MAGIC: debugger shows email address(es) in first textField
// but only if it's about max 35 characters
if (((UITextField *)view).text)
{
eAddress = [NSString stringWithString:((UITextField *)view).text];
NSLog(#"FOUND UITextField: %#", eAddress ? eAddress : #"");
[emailArray addObject:eAddress];
}
}
NSArray *subviews = [view subviews];
if (subviews) {
for (UIView *view in subviews)
{
NSString *s = [self findEmailAddresses:view depth:count+1];
if (s) eAddress = s;
}
}
return eAddress;
}

Answer 3

There is no way to do this as of iOS 6 as mail composition is now done through an XPC service call to a remote process (MailCompositionService). There is a great explanation here: http://oleb.net/blog/2012/10/remote-view-controllers-in-ios-6/. The lowest level in the view hierarchy is now an _UIRemoteView which interfaces to the remote process. The code from the blog post at http://jomnius.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-find-mfmailcomposeviewcontroller.html will now alway return nil.