CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
user2341103
user2341103

Reputation: 2433

Emailing data in outlook

I have the HTML code @http://pastie.org/8289257 in a text file "gerrit.txt" which will create a table with some contents ,I convert the text file to a .htm file and open it the output looks perfectly fine,this tells me the HTML code is fine,but when I email(using outlook) it using the below code,table sometims gets messed up. I need ideas on what other ways can I send email?I tried SMTP as below which doesnt seem to work...

from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from smtplib import SMTP

def email (body,subject):
    msg = MIMEText("%s" % body)
    msg['Content-Type'] = "text/html; charset=UTF8"
    msg['Subject'] = subject
    s = SMTP('localhost',25)
    s.sendmail('[email protected]', ['[email protected]'],msg=msg.as_string())

def main ():
    # open gerrit.txt and read the content into body
    with open('gerrit.txt', 'r') as f:
        body = f.read()
    subject = "test email"
    email(body,subject)
    print "Done"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 322

Answers (1)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 474201

Your code is completely correct except that you need to pass html type to MIMEText:

msg = MIMEText("%s" % body, 'html')

I've tested it with my gmail account, seen html code in the message without setting html type.

Alternatively, you can use mailer package as suggested here.

Upvotes: 1

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