Email using SMTP python from gmail account with html body
I am trying to send email using a gmail account from a python script using the SMTP library. It works fine with a normal message body. But when I try to send it using HTML body. This prevents me from posting.
# Import smtplib to provide email functions
import smtplib
# Import the email modules
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
# Define email addresses to use
addr_to = 'xxxx@localdomain.com'
addr_from = "xxxxx@gmail.com"
# Define SMTP email server details
smtp_server = 'smtp.gmail.com'
smtp_user = 'xxxxxx@gmail.com'
smtp_pass = 'xxxxxxx'
# Construct email
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['To'] = *emphasized text*addr_to
msg['From'] = addr_from
msg['Subject'] = 'Test Email From RPi'
# Create the body of the message (a plain-text and an HTML version).
text = "This is a test message.\nText and html."
html = """\
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<p>This is a test message.</p>
<p>Text and HTML</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
# Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html.
part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')
# Attach parts into message container.
# According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case
# the HTML message, is best and preferred.
msg.attach(part1)
msg.attach(part2)
# Send the message via an SMTP server
s = smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server,587)
s.login(smtp_user,smtp_pass)
s.sendmail(addr_from, addr_to, msg.as_string())
s.quit()
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Add these two lines before trying to login, it won't give you authentication errors.
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
So your code should look like this:
# Import smtplib to provide email functions
import smtplib
# Import the email modules
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
# Define email addresses to use
addr_to = ' xxxx@localdomain.com '
addr_from = " xxxxx@gmail.com "
# Define SMTP email server details
smtp_server = 'smtp.gmail.com'
smtp_user = ' xxxxxx@gmail.com '
smtp_pass = 'xxxxxxx'
# Construct email
msg = MIMEMultipart ('alternative')
msg ['To'] = * emphasized text * addr_to
msg ['From'] = addr_from
msg ['Subject'] = 'Test Email From RPi'
# Create the body of the message (a plain-text and an HTML version).
text = "This is a test message. \ nText and html."
(your html code)
# Record the MIME types of both parts - text / plain and text / html.
part1 = MIMEText (text, 'plain')
part2 = MIMEText (html, 'html')
# Attach parts into message container.
# According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case
# the HTML message, is best and preferred.
msg.attach (part1)
msg.attach (part2)
# Send the message via an SMTP server
s = smtplib.SMTP (smtp_server, 587)
s.ehlo ()
s.starttls ()
s.login (smtp_user, smtp_pass)
s.sendmail (addr_from, addr_to, msg.as_string ())
s.quit ()
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