[Tutor] Sending email as html

Ted Roche tedroche at gmail.com
Sat Sep 6 02:03:30 CEST 2008


On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Tim Johnson <tim at johnsons-web.com> wrote:
>
> I've been using smtplib for years to send plain text emails programmatically.
> Now I have a customer who is requesting that I (at least) investigate sending
> invoices by email as html.

I'm a big fan of sending invoices as PDFs. The invoices can have as
rich text and graphics as you want, print well, and work
cross-platform.

> I would appreciate examples, URLs to documentation or discussions of the topic
> and even an argument to the contrary of sending email with embedded html.

Google "HTML Email is Evil" for a pretty succinct summary.

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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
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