An answered question at StackOverflow suggests that adding html-markup to the body of the email will do the trick. Is that solution correct?
But what if the recipien
To give two alternatives, you can set the Content-Type
to mixed/alternative
instead of either text/plain
or text/html
:
If we want to try this out in the API explorer, we just Base64-encode the mail, and make it url-safe by replacing all /
with _
and all +
with -
.
In the Developer Console:
btoa(
"Subject: Example Subject\r\n" +
"From: <example@gmail.com>\r\n" +
"To: <example@gmail.com>\r\n" +
"Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"foo_bar\"\r\n\r\n" +
"--foo_bar\r\n" +
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n\r\n" +
"*Bold example message text*\r\n\r\n" +
"--foo_bar\r\n" +
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n\r\n" +
"<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>Bold example message text</b></div>\r\n\r\n" +
"--foo_bar--"
).replace(/\+/g, '-').replace(/\//g, '_');
POST https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send?access_token={YOUR_API_KEY}
{
"raw": "U3ViamVjdDogRXhhbXBsZSBTdWJqZWN0DQpGcm9tOiA8ZXhhbXBsZUBnbWFpbC5jb20-DQpUbzogPGV4YW1wbGVAZ21haWwuY29tPg0KQ29udGVudC1UeXBlOiBtdWx0aXBhcnQvYWx0ZXJuYXRpdmU7IGJvdW5kYXJ5PSJmb29fYmFyIg0KDQotLWZvb19iYXINCkNvbnRlbnQtVHlwZTogdGV4dC9wbGFpbjsgY2hhcnNldD1VVEYtOA0KDQoqQm9sZCBleGFtcGxlIG1lc3NhZ2UgdGV4dCoNCg0KLS1mb29fYmFyDQpDb250ZW50LVR5cGU6IHRleHQvaHRtbDsgY2hhcnNldD1VVEYtOA0KDQo8ZGl2IGRpcj0ibHRyIj48Yj5Cb2xkIGV4YW1wbGUgbWVzc2FnZSB0ZXh0PC9iPjwvZGl2Pg0KDQotLWZvb19iYXItLQ=="
}
To do the equivalent in Java, you could do:
Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
Multipart multiPart = new MimeMultipart("alternative");
MimeBodyPart textPart = new MimeBodyPart();
textPart.setText(text, "utf-8");
MimeBodyPart htmlPart = new MimeBodyPart();
htmlPart.setContent(html, "text/html; charset=utf-8");
multiPart.addBodyPart(textPart);
multiPart.addBodyPart(htmlPart);
message.setContent(multiPart);
ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
message.writeTo(output);
String rawEmail = Base64.encodeBase64URLSafeString(output.toByteArray());
Message message = new Message();
message.setRaw(rawEmail);
message = service.users().messages().send(userId, message).execute();
To add an update to above answer from Throlle. There were some differences in above and possibly with the later versions of gmail api
to send a message and follow their default provided standards for sending a standard email :
This is in grails but you can easily change for java, the controller stuff pre this html stuff can be found here. Maybe when I am finished with what I am doing and get a chance will update the github site with all these examples:
In controller:
def sendHTMLEmail() {
String emailBox='me@gmail.com'
String to ='someuser@domain.com'
String html="<html><body><table><tr><td><b>aa</b></td><td>bb</td></tr></table><h1>html content</h1></body></html>"
MimeMessage content = gmailService.createHTMLEmail(to,emailBox,'gmail test','testing gmail via app',html)
def message = gmailService.sendMessage(gmail,'me',content)
render "=== ${message.id}"
}
In Service:
public static MimeMessage createHTMLEmail(String to, String from, String subject, String text, String html) {
Properties props = new Properties()
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null)
MimeMessage email = new MimeMessage(session)
Multipart multiPart = new MimeMultipart("alternative")
email.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from))
email.addRecipient(javax.mail.Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(to))
email.setSubject(subject)
MimeBodyPart textPart = new MimeBodyPart()
textPart.setText(text, "utf-8")
MimeBodyPart htmlPart = new MimeBodyPart()
htmlPart.setContent(html, "text/html; charset=utf-8")
multiPart.addBodyPart(textPart)
multiPart.addBodyPart(htmlPart)
email.setContent(multiPart)
return email
}
Then their standard provided sendMessage (below bits can be found on github link):
public static Message sendMessage(Gmail service,String userId,MimeMessage emailContent) throws MessagingException, IOException {
try {
Message message = createMessageWithEmail(emailContent)
message = service.users().messages().send(userId, message).execute()
return message
} catch (Exception e) {
//log.error "${e}"
}
}
and createMessageWithEmail
public static Message createMessageWithEmail(MimeMessage emailContent) throws MessagingException, IOException {
ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
emailContent.writeTo(buffer)
byte[] bytes = buffer.toByteArray()
String encodedEmail = Base64.encodeBase64URLSafeString(bytes)
Message message = new Message()
message.setRaw(encodedEmail)
return message
}