Emailing data in outlook

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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('userid@company.com', ['userid2@company.com'],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()

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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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.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered Sep 01 '13 at 18:34

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thanks,any idea why the table might get messedup?is there a way to escape any junk characters from each cell? – user2341103 Sep 01 '13 at 19:01
hm, I've sent it with `html` passed - the table is not messed up. I'm seeing only one html problem - `font` tag is not closed at the end - though, it's not relevant I think. – alecxe Sep 01 '13 at 19:06
do you have a way to send the email in outlook? – user2341103 Sep 01 '13 at 19:17
Nope. Could you post the html that gets messed up in the outlook? – alecxe Sep 01 '13 at 19:18
Nope. Does the html that you send via email persistent? You said it gets messed up sometimes - html changes? If yes, just show what html is messed up on the outlook side. – alecxe Sep 01 '13 at 19:25
@alexce - never mind ,I figured out..here is the messed up HTML code http://pastie.org/8289379 – user2341103 Sep 01 '13 at 19:26
There are strange `!` chars there, see ``,`!ht="100">` and ``..do you have it in the source html that you send? – alecxe Sep 01 '13 at 19:29
@alexce - do you know why the code is not continuos.."!" breaks it up..as you can see the code @"Yes<! td>Provided" will be one cell – user2341103 Sep 01 '13 at 19:30
@alexce - yes,i have it in the source code I sent..while doing the email conversion from the text file..outlook is getting this strange "!" character..how to escape this character ? – user2341103 Sep 01 '13 at 19:33
Ok, thanks. I'm not actually sure how do you want to escape it. It really breaks up the html while being inside the closing `td` tags. It just shouldn't be there. – alecxe Sep 01 '13 at 19:35
yes,that seems to be problem,need some ideas on how to fix it? – user2341103 Sep 01 '13 at 19:39

Emailing data in outlook

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