Sending HTML email using Python

Question

How can I send the HTML content in an email using Python? I can send simple text.

Answer 1

for python3, improve @taltman 's answer:

• use email.message.EmailMessage instead of email.message.Message to construct email.
• use email.set_content func, assign subtype='html' argument. instead of low level func set_payload and add header manually.
• use SMTP.send_message func instead of SMTP.sendmail func to send email.
• use with block to auto close connection.

from email.message import EmailMessage
from smtplib import SMTP

# construct email
email = EmailMessage()
email['Subject'] = 'foo'
email['From'] = 'sender@test.com'
email['To'] = 'recipient@test.com'
email.set_content('red color text', subtype='html')

# Send the message via local SMTP server.
with smtplib.SMTP('localhost') as s:
    s.login('foo_user', 'bar_password')
    s.send_message(email)