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Hi Tony, We submitted a TSI and they punted to filing a Bug Report..In our experience, often a black hole.Here is the message:Thank you for contacting Apple Developer Technical Support (DTS). We have reviewed your request and believe this issue would be best handled by the relevant engineering team directly, as it may require changes to the OS, tools, or the frameworks you are using.Please submit a complete bug report regarding this issue using ....We MUST get this working so we can port our business apps which import the Contracts into the app.Perhaps if you file a similar Bug Report it will help get some action?Thanks!JohnBelow is what we filed. Recent Similar Reports:None Resolution:Open Basic Information Please provide a descriptive title for your feedback:CNContact Access on macOS - “Directory services are not configured” - message in xCodeWhich area are you seeing an issue with?ContactsWhat type of issue are you reporting?Application Crash Details What kind of contacts account is having the problem?Something else not on this listWhat kind of account?Testing with Contacts on MacWhich app are you using when you encounter the issue?Something else not on this listWhich App are you using?We are developing our macOS app.What time was it when this last occurred? (Example: 12:00 pm EST 02/14/2018)6:00 am on 8/15/2019 Description Please describe the issue and what steps we can take to reproduce it:Hello, Please note from DTS: We have reviewed your request and believe this issue would be best handled by the relevant engineering team directly, as it may require changes to the OS, tools, or the frameworks you are using.Issue: When building and running the code below the following message is displayed in the Xcode log: 2019-08-14 12:26:20.858611-0600 JZMac[10866:26357377] [directory-services] checking if directory services are configured 2019-08-14 12:26:20.860954-0600 JZMac[10866:26357377] [directory-services] directory services are not configured. Here is the code:- (void) loadContactList { CNAuthorizationStatus status = [CNContactStore authorizationStatusForEntityType:CNEntityTypeContacts];if( status == CNAuthorizationStatusDenied || status == CNAuthorizationStatusRestricted) {NSLog(@"access denied");} else {//Create repository objects contactsCNContactStore *contactStore = [[CNContactStore alloc] init];NSArray *keys = [[NSArray alloc]initWithObjects:CNContactIdentifierKey, CNContactEmailAddressesKey, CNContactBirthdayKey, CNContactImageDataKey, CNContactPhoneNumbersKey, CNContactViewController.descriptorForRequiredKeys, nil]; CNContactFetchRequest *request = [[CNContactFetchRequest alloc] initWithKeysToFetch:keys];request.predicate = nil; [contactStore enumerateContactsWithFetchRequest:request error:nil usingBlock:^(CNContact* __nonnull contact, BOOL* __nonnull stop) { NSString *phoneNumber = @"";if( contact.phoneNumbers) phoneNumber = [[[contact.phoneNumbers firstObject] value] stringValue];[self->cnArr addObject:contact]; }]; }NSLog (@"ConImp...LoadContacts...ContArr: %lu", (unsigned long)cnArr.count);}

Thanks for the reply. Here is the code. Although we have been doing this for seven years and have 17 iOS apps we pretty much operate in the Xcode/Objective C and occasionally the Swift world.Here is the link to the actual project: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/SBSendEmail/Introduction/Intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS10004645Here is the one method in the project that does what we need. Adds a message to the outgoing messages.- (IBAction)sendEmailMessage:(id)sender { /* create a Scripting Bridge object for talking to the Mail application */ MailApplication *mail = [SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier:@"com.apple.Mail"]; /* set ourself as the delegate to receive any errors */ mail.delegate = self; /* create a new outgoing message object */ MailOutgoingMessage *emailMessage = [[[mail classForScriptingClass:@"outgoing message"] alloc] initWithProperties: [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [self.subjectField stringValue], @"subject", [[self.messageContent textStorage] string], @"content", nil]]; /* add the object to the mail app */ [[mail outgoingMessages] addObject: emailMessage]; /* set the sender, show the message */ emailMessage.sender = [self.fromField stringValue]; emailMessage.visible = YES; /* Test for errors */ if ( [mail lastError] != nil ) return; /* create a new recipient and add it to the recipients list */ MailToRecipient *theRecipient = [[[mail classForScriptingClass:@"to recipient"] alloc] initWithProperties: [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [self.toField stringValue], @"address", nil]]; [emailMessage.toRecipients addObject: theRecipient]; [theRecipient release]; /* Test for errors */ if ( [mail lastError] != nil ) return; } /* send the message */ [emailMessage send]; }