Include html part in a mail with python libgmail

Question

I've a question about its usage: i need to send an html formatted mail. I prepare my message with

ga = libgmail.GmailAccount(USERNAME,PASSWORD)
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative') 
msg.attach(part1)
msg.attach(part2)
...
ga.sendMessage(msg.as_string())

This way doesn't works, it seems can't send msg with sendMessage method. What is the right way? : D

Answer 1

If you refer to libgmail from sourceforge, you need to compose your messages with the email module.

Generate the HTML message as a MIME document, and include it as a part of a multipart MIME message. When you have a fully constructed multipart MIME, pass it along as a string to the libgmail constructor, using to .as_string() method.

An example in the doc contains the code for a similar requirement:

# Create message container - the correct MIME type is multipart/alternative.
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['Subject'] = "Link"
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you
...
# Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html.
# ... text and html are strings with appropriate content.
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)