Sending HTML email using Python
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/pythonimport smtplibfrom email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipartfrom email.mime.text import MIMEText# me == my email address# you == recipient's email addressme = "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'] = memsg['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()
You might try using my mailer module.
from mailer import Mailerfrom mailer import Messagemessage = Message(From="me@example.com", To="you@example.com")message.Subject = "An HTML Email"message.Html = """<p>Hi!<br> How are you?<br> Here is the <a href="http://www.python.org">link</a> you wanted.</p>"""sender = Mailer('smtp.example.com')sender.send(message)
Here is a Gmail implementation of the accepted answer:
import smtplibfrom email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipartfrom email.mime.text import MIMEText# me == my email address# you == recipient's email addressme = "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'] = memsg['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.mail = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)mail.ehlo()mail.starttls()mail.login('userName', 'password')mail.sendmail(me, you, msg.as_string())mail.quit()