How can I send the HTML content in an email using Python? I can send simple text.
Actually, yagmail took a bit different approach.
It will by default send HTML, with automatic fallback for incapable email-readers. It is not the 17th century anymore.
Of course, it can be overridden, but here goes:
import yagmail
yag = yagmail.SMTP("me@example.com", "mypassword")
html_msg = """<p>Hi!<br>
How are you?<br>
Here is the <a href="http://www.python.org">link</a> you wanted.</p>"""
yag.send("to@example.com", "the subject", html_msg)
For installation instructions and many more great features, have a look at the github.
Here is my answer for AWS using boto3
subject = "Hello"
html = "<b>Hello Consumer</b>"
client = boto3.client('ses', region_name='us-east-1', aws_access_key_id="your_key",
aws_secret_access_key="your_secret")
client.send_email(
Source='ACME <do-not-reply@acme.com>',
Destination={'ToAddresses': [email]},
Message={
'Subject': {'Data': subject},
'Body': {
'Html': {'Data': html}
}
}
From Python v2.7.14 documentation - 18.1.11. email: Examples:
Here’s an example of how to create an HTML message with an alternative plain text version:
#! /usr/bin/python
import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
# me == my email address
# you == recipient's email address
me = "my@email.com"
you = "your@email.com"
# Create message container - the correct MIME type is multipart/alternative.
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['Subject'] = "Link"
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you
# Create the body of the message (a plain-text and an HTML version).
text = "Hi!\nHow are you?\nHere is the link you wanted:\nhttp://www.python.org"
html = """\
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<p>Hi!<br>
How are you?<br>
Here is the <a href="http://www.python.org">link</a> you wanted.
</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
# Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html.
part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')
# Attach parts into message container.
# According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case
# the HTML message, is best and preferred.
msg.attach(part1)
msg.attach(part2)
# Send the message via local SMTP server.
s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
# sendmail function takes 3 arguments: sender's address, recipient's address
# and message to send - here it is sent as one string.
s.sendmail(me, you, msg.as_string())
s.quit()
Here's sample code. This is inspired from code found on the Python Cookbook site (can't find the exact link)
def createhtmlmail (html, text, subject, fromEmail):
"""Create a mime-message that will render HTML in popular
MUAs, text in better ones"""
import MimeWriter
import mimetools
import cStringIO
out = cStringIO.StringIO() # output buffer for our message
htmlin = cStringIO.StringIO(html)
txtin = cStringIO.StringIO(text)
writer = MimeWriter.MimeWriter(out)
#
# set up some basic headers... we put subject here
# because smtplib.sendmail expects it to be in the
# message body
#
writer.addheader("From", fromEmail)
writer.addheader("Subject", subject)
writer.addheader("MIME-Version", "1.0")
#
# start the multipart section of the message
# multipart/alternative seems to work better
# on some MUAs than multipart/mixed
#
writer.startmultipartbody("alternative")
writer.flushheaders()
#
# the plain text section
#
subpart = writer.nextpart()
subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "quoted-printable")
pout = subpart.startbody("text/plain", [("charset", 'us-ascii')])
mimetools.encode(txtin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
txtin.close()
#
# start the html subpart of the message
#
subpart = writer.nextpart()
subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "quoted-printable")
#
# returns us a file-ish object we can write to
#
pout = subpart.startbody("text/html", [("charset", 'us-ascii')])
mimetools.encode(htmlin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
htmlin.close()
#
# Now that we're done, close our writer and
# return the message body
#
writer.lastpart()
msg = out.getvalue()
out.close()
print msg
return msg
if __name__=="__main__":
import smtplib
html = 'html version'
text = 'TEST VERSION'
subject = "BACKUP REPORT"
message = createhtmlmail(html, text, subject, 'From Host <sender@host.com>')
server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp_server_address","smtp_port")
server.login('username', 'password')
server.sendmail('sender@host.com', 'target@otherhost.com', message)
server.quit()