{"id":10229,"date":"2014-12-05T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10229"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:15:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:15:54","slug":"mail-to-self-share-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/mail-to-self-share-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail to Self Share Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danfrakes.com\/2014\/12\/04\/mail-to-self-an-ios-8-share-sheet-extension-that-lets-you-do-just-that\/\">Dan Frakes<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/danfrakes.com\/2014\/12\/04\/mail-to-self-an-ios-8-share-sheet-extension-that-lets-you-do-just-that\/\">\r\n<p>A couple months back, I <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DanFrakes\/status\/518165213518901249\" title=\"tweeted\">tweeted<\/a> that the iOS 8 share-sheet extension I <em>really<\/em> wanted was one that would let me send myself an email&mdash;in other words, to share the current thing via email, but to have the resulting email message pre-addressed to me.<\/p>\r\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I&rsquo;ve long wanted that, too. He found one called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailtoself.com\">Mail to Self<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/app\/ios\/mail-to-self\">App Store<\/a>).<\/p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/danfrakes.com\/2014\/12\/04\/mail-to-self-an-ios-8-share-sheet-extension-that-lets-you-do-just-that\/\"><p>This may be a quirk with iOS 8&rsquo;s share sheets, which are still quite buggy, but I&rsquo;ve found that Mail To Self doesn&rsquo;t show up as an option in some apps or contexts. For example, it doesn&rsquo;t appear as an option in the Photos share sheet. I also don&rsquo;t like that the extension sends your messages through its own mail server, instead of just using Mail on your device. (Maybe this is a limitation of extensions&mdash;I don&rsquo;t know.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>It&rsquo;s also worth noting that this is not a shortcut for e-mailing yourself through the iOS Mail app and your mail server. Rather, the e-mails are sent via <a href=\"https:\/\/mandrill.com\">Mandrill&rsquo;s<\/a> server.<\/p>\r\n<p>Update (2014-12-05): From <a href=\"http:\/\/danfrakes.com\/2014\/12\/04\/mail-to-self-an-ios-8-share-sheet-extension-that-lets-you-do-just-that\/\">Frakes&rsquo; update<\/a>, my guess is that the Photos limitation is due to the extension not yet declaring support for that media type.<\/p>\r\n<p>Update (2014-12-27): Another problem I found is that the extension doesn&rsquo;t work (or even report an error) when my iPhone doesn&rsquo;t have a network connection, whereas if I use Mail it will queue the message and send it when a connection becomes available.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Frakes: A couple months back, I tweeted that the iOS 8 share-sheet extension I really wanted was one that would let me send myself an email&mdash;in other words, to share the current thing via email, but to have the resulting email message pre-addressed to me. [&#8230;] I&rsquo;ve long wanted that, too. He found one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[150,905,31,904,1077,355],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-email","tag-extensions","tag-ios","tag-ios-8","tag-mail-to-self","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11041,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions\/11041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}