Including a Variable In the HTML Tags When Sending An Email

Sat Aug 8 10:58:50 EDT 2020

On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 3:46:04 PM UTC+1, Richard Damon wrote:
> All the text that you want the user to see needs to be in the <body> of
> the message. <head> is for metadata and stuff to setup some formatting.
> 
> You might want to study up a bit on HTML formatting too. Depending on
> what the data frame is like, you may need to enclose it in some sort of
> container, like a <div>
> 
> On 8/8/20 10:29 AM, sammy.jackson987 at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello all
> >
> > I was hoping someone could help me with the following coding problem.
> >
> > I am trying to send an email where the body of the email is taken from a data frame, which i have managed to do.
> >
> > However i want to start the email by saying Hi Name, where Name is a variable that contains the person's name to whom i am sending the email to - This is the bit i cannot get working.
> >
> > The code i have so far is as follows:-
> >
> > [python]
> > import smtplib
> > from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
> > from email.mime.text import MIMEText
> >              
> > mail=smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 123) 
> > mail.ehlo() 
> > mail.starttls()  
> > mail.login("Email","Pwd") 
> >              
> > From_Address = ["From_Email"]
> > To_Address = [Report_Data_Frame.iloc[0,10]]
> > CC_Address = ["CC_Email", "CC_Email", "CC_Email"]
> > Subject_Email = "Email_Subject" 
> > Body = Email_Body_Data_Frame
> > Name = "Tom"
> >          
> >                
> > html = """\
> > <html>
> >            
> >   <head>
> >       Hi Name Goes HERE!!!
> >       <br>
> >       <br>
> >       TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT<br> <br>
> >   </head>
> >            
> >   <body>
> >            
> >     {0}
> >      
> >   </body>
> >            
> >   <br>
> >            
> >  TEXT TEXT <br><br>
> >  TEXT TEXT <br><br>
> >  TEXT TEXT <br><br>
> >  TEXT TEXT <br>
> >           
> >         
> > </html>
> >  """.format(Body.to_html())
> >      
> > msg = MIMEMultipart()
> > msg['From'] = ', '.join(From_Address)
> > msg['To'] = ', '.join(To_Address)
> > msg['Cc'] = ', '.join(CC_Address)
> > msg['Subject'] = Subject_Email
> >              
> > message = MIMEText(html,'html')
> > msg.attach(message)
> > mail.sendmail(From_Address, (To_Address + CC_Address), msg.as_string())
> > [/python]
> >
> > In this case the variable Name is Tom and i want to include Tom in the email.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > Still a newbie; approx 3 weeks playing with Python (cut and past most of this code)
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appericated.
> >
> > Thank you.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Richard Damon

Thank you Richard for your response.

I have moved all the text i want the user to see into the body of the email.

I still cannot get my email to display the name.

Name = "Tim"

How would i include this variable in my HTML/Python code?

Any ideas?

Thank you.