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I'm sending email through below code:

msg = MIMEText(u'<a href="www.google.com">abc</a>')
msg['Subject'] = 'subject'
msg['From'] = 'xxx'
msg['To'] = 'xxx'

s = smtplib.SMTP(xxx, 25)
s.sendmail(xxx, xxx, msg.as_string())

what I want to receive is

abc

what I actually received is:

<a href="www.google.com">abc</a>
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  • https://docs.python.org/2/library/email-examples.html What you're attempting to do needs to be sent via MIMEText(html,blah) – FirebladeDan Jul 30 '15 at 04:27

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You should specify 'html' as the subtype -

msg = MIMEText(u'<a href="www.google.com">abc</a>','html')

Without specifying the subtype separately , the subtype defaults to 'plain' (plain-text). From documentations -

class email.mime.text.MIMEText(_text[, _subtype[, _charset]])

A subclass of MIMENonMultipart, the MIMEText class is used to create MIME objects of major type text. _text is the string for the payload. _subtype is the minor type and defaults to plain.

(Emphasis mine) .

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This worked for me :)

email_body = """<pre> 
Congratulations! We've successfully created account.
Go to the page: <a href="https://www.google.com/">click here</a>
Thanks,
XYZ Team.
</pre>"""

msg = MIMEText(email_body ,'html')

O/P: Congratulations! We've successfully created account.

Go to the page: click here

Thanks,

XYZ Team.

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  • I didn't need the 
     tag, and when I sent the email through gmail's python api, the 
     tag changed the look of the font, which wasn't what I was going for. specifying 'html' in the MimeText constructor was sufficient for me
     – TheGaldozer Nov 07 '20 at 03:59