Are there examples of sending simple HTML formatted emails (<h1>, <b> and such) out from Plone?
Plain text is well-covered, but there are no HTML email out examples.
You can adapt any of the many python email module examples. Because HTML email usually means sending multipart/alternative messages, things get a little more complicated.
The examples page of the email package.
Sending HTML email using Python
Sending Multipart html emails which contain embedded images
You basically have to construct an email.Message object and pass that to Mailhost.send.
Depending on your use case, you could also use collective.watcherlist.
This was factored out of Products.Poi, which uses it to allow users to subscribe to updates for an issue. That part may not be interesting for you, but it has code that takes a browserview as basis for sending an email. Hooking a page template up to that browserview is of course simple.
If you cannot use it directly, it may serve as a code example.
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We require the users to reply in a specific format about their problems. Our current application sends an auto-generated mail which has a mailto embedded like this
Contact Application Team
What we want now is to include a table in the embedded "mailto" so that user can describe their problems in much better way. We have tried encoding html inside mailto body, but it gets treated as simple text.
Is there any way to include the table in the mailto body or any better way to improve the interaction.
It is not possible to include HTML in the mailto body, as defined in Section 2 of RFC 2368.
Possible alternate solutions:
Have users type their information into an HTML form and then use PHP (or similar server side language) to send the email
Try to format your email a little bit nicer by adding in some line breaks. You can use %0D (Carriage Return) followed by %0A (Line Feed). Maybe something like this:
Contact Application Team
I use velocity to create a string writer, then merge that into a template. The template #includes html to make a simple table, yet only the raw HTML shows up in the email... it does not get rendered. Email is being sent from Google server to outlook client.
Can anyone tell me How can I get rendered HTML into an email message created with Velocity?
Thanks!
You have to set a Content-type: text/html header.
Appart from that, you have to be aware that all the different email clients may strip the HTML tags and features (for example, styles), so you have to experiment with different email clients and try to stick to a very basic feature set.
I recently learned that webmail clients like Gmail will do alterations on HTML emails, for example adding target="_blank" to <a> tags.
I've also discovered that other alterations happen as well. When I send an HTML email to Gmail (and possibly other web mail clients) from my PHP script, variable values included in the URL of any links are being stripped out. So, for example, this is the value I'm setting in my PHP code:
$mailContent = '<p><a target="_blank" href="https://example.com/confirmation.html?verification=x1x1x1x1x1x1x1x&email=yyyy#email.com">click here to go to the web site and activate your account!</a></p>';
But when the email is received in Gmail, the HTML code comes out like this:
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://example.com/confirmation.html?verification=&email=">click here to go to the web site and activate your account!</a></p>
The values x1x1x1x1x1x1x1x and yyyy#email.com have been stripped out from within the <a> tag.
How do I protect the values of the variables that I want to pass to the URL so that Gmail won't remove them?
Click View original/source on the message in Gmail to see if the URLs looks like they should then. If so you know that the problem is how Gmail is formatting the message for your viewing. If it's mutilated even in the source I was wondering if there's anything in your webpage/php/CMS (do you use one) that changes the code.
You should try URL-encoding as #Crisp said. Here's the W3 reference.
Emailing in html uses Quoted-printable Encoding. The problem with your $mailContent is that the "=" must be represented by =3D
Try adding this:
$mailContent = quoted_printable_encode($mailContent);
This may not be the perfect answer, but if your application allows for it, I have used URL shorteners a number of times.
http://goo.gl/ is my preferred because the API is super easy to implement and google is very fast. I have a function in a class and I just run my url through it and send the return wherever I need it to be.
Another non-perfect answer here but, my problem was that I was including an http url in the html body and apparently is not valid so I changed them to https. This was on a dev environment so no problem on production.
Here is more info about this:
Any URL's in the body of the mail which lead to insecure sites may also need to be removed. Use https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search to validate these links.. All links should be correctly prefixed with "https". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS Google seem to be rejecting "http". Sometimes, but not always, removing links from any signature can help.
I am trying to write an HTML Code which on clicking on one of the links a mail is sent to respective mail Id.But along with that mail i also want to attach an attachment by default.Uptill now i am able to pouplate rest of the fields like to,cc,bcc,sub but the only thing remained is attachment.
Can anyone sort it out for me.Your help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.
I may be misunderstanding the question, but you're not going to be able to add an attachment to an email with HTML only. You're going to need some server side code.
Are you trying to use mailto: to do this?
Attachments are encoded in mail messages according to the MIME standard. All the major web scripting languages have modules to read and write MIME messages. Searching for "MIME" at CPAN for instance will turn up lots of useful Perl code.
My company has a requirement to render MIME encoded emails (HTML) in a browser window. This isn't part of an MUA, but a tool we need to add to our product. I've looked all over the net for a product/library and I'm not finding one.
Has anyone used anything to render emails in a browser window?
You didn't mention a language, so I'll assume you're flexible.
Python would be my preferred solution - it has email parser, and pyzmail. The latter is a bit easier to use, the former is more compatible.
PHP has MailParse and Mime Mail Parser.
Ruby has Mail.
Just extract the HTML using the relevant function in whatever library you go with, then either render it straight to the browser, or save it on the filesystem and return a link. You can't 'link' to attachments from the email body, but you can get the attachments from the parser library, save them and generate links to the files.