howto send html mails using smtplib

Tim Williams listserver at tdw.net
Fri Jun 10 08:53:35 EDT 2005


"Philippe C. Martin" <philippe at philippecmartin.com> wrote in message
news:sD3qe.2270$751.1207 at newssvr30.news.prodigy.com...
>  I have the following problem:
> 1) I can use smtplib to send text messages
> 2) I can generate html
> 3) I want to email the html and want it to be seen by the email client as
> html.
>
> However, when I receive the message, the email client displays it as text
> (code hereunder) - I assume it has to do with the MIMEText call but since
I
> cannot see any MIMEhtml .....


I suspect you need one of the following lines.

msg.replace_header('Content-Type', 'text/html')

msg.add_header('Content-Type', 'text/html')


HTH :)

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