When I use python's mime utility to send HTML emails. I receive corrupted HTML emails as explained below. When I send UTF-8 HTML emails, the problem seams to go away.
Note that I am only sending ascii characters, no UTF-8 characters at all.
I used this template from Sending HTML email using Python :
#! /usr/bin/python
import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
# me == my email address
# you == recipient's email address
me = "my@email.com"
you = "your@email.com"
# Create message container - the correct MIME type is multipart/alternative.
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['Subject'] = "Link"
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you
# Create the body of the message (a plain-text and an HTML version).
text = "Hi!\nHow are you?\nHere is the link you wanted:\nhttp://www.python.org"
html = """\
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<p>
<table cellpadding="3">
<tbody>
<tr style="background-color:#d4d4d4">
<td>One</td>
<td>Two</td>
<td>Three</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</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 local SMTP server.
s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
# sendmail function takes 3 arguments: sender's address, recipient's address
# and message to send - here it is sent as one string.
s.sendmail(me, you, msg.as_string())
s.quit()
I do receive an email, but sometimes this line:
'<tr style="background-color:#d4d4d4">'
will be replaced by:
<tr style="background-color:#d4d4d4">
causing the resulting html to be erroneous.
Any idea how I can fix this issue?
