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EmailMultiAlternatives adding a 3D when sending mail with image in django

Answer 1

+1 A:

This is only a partial solution. When I create an email in thunderbird and embed an image (it's visible when I view the message), the source looks like this:

--------------070800070205000904000708
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<img alt="asdsa" src="cid:[email protected]"
 height="38" width="150"><br>
</body>   
</html>

--------------070800070205000904000708
Content-Type: image/jpeg;
 name="added.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Disposition: inline;
 filename="added.jpg"

then the contents of the image follow. The URL in the image tag needs to be the Content-ID of the attached image. I'm just not sure how to specify that.

EDIT: It seems you can do it with the email module in the standard library instead of Django's EmailMultiAlternatives. See here: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/473810/

Gabriel Ross 2009-10-21 01:53:30

Answer 2

A:

I had the same problem and here is what i found:

First, a disclaimer. I don't know much about email message standards. This is what i found after searching,reading and experimenting. To my knowledge, it works.

1) The problem with images not displaying is because the EmailMessage (and EmailMultiAlternatives) classes in Django use "multipart/mixed" content type for the message, when in fact you need "multipart/related". What i did was:

msg = EmailMultiAlternatives()
msg.mixed_subtype = 'relative'

Thats it!

2) The problem with 3D appearing should not affect your message. I think it is part of the 'quoted printable' spec. If you don't like it and you prefer a 8bit or 7bit try this at the top of your file:

from email import Charset
# Due to http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/11212
Charset.add_charset('utf-8',Charset.SHORTEST,None,'utf-8')

As the comment suggets, i got this from that django ticket.

I know this question is rather old, but there was no reply that satisfied me and was the only one that turned up on a google search on this issue.

arcanum 2009-12-04 12:22:01

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