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HTML Email with Inline Attachments (images)

Author:
hunterford
Posted:
October 1, 2010
Language:
Python
Version:
1.2
Score:
4 (after 4 ratings)

This will allow you to attach HTML multipart emails (HTML/text) and use inline images.

In my example, I'm attaching an image that's stored as an 'attachment' to an 'event.' The file name of the attachment is called "inline.jpg" and I'm referencing it in my HTML message. I'm also attaching a VCAL file (.ics) file that has some information about an associated event.

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import os.path
import re

from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives, SafeMIMEMultipart

class EmailMultiRelated(EmailMultiAlternatives):
    """
    A version of EmailMessage that makes it easy to send multipart/related
    messages. For example, including text and HTML versions with inline images.
    """
    related_subtype = 'related'
    
    def __init__(self, subject='', body='', from_email=None, to=None, bcc=None,
            connection=None, attachments=None, headers=None, alternatives=None):
        # self.related_ids = []
        self.related_attachments = []
        return super(EmailMultiRelated, self).__init__(subject, body, from_email, to, bcc, connection, attachments, headers, alternatives)
    
    def attach_related(self, filename=None, content=None, mimetype=None):
        """
        Attaches a file with the given filename and content. The filename can
        be omitted and the mimetype is guessed, if not provided.

        If the first parameter is a MIMEBase subclass it is inserted directly
        into the resulting message attachments.
        """
        if isinstance(filename, MIMEBase):
            assert content == mimetype == None
            self.related_attachments.append(filename)
        else:
            assert content is not None
            self.related_attachments.append((filename, content, mimetype))
    
    def attach_related_file(self, path, mimetype=None):
        """Attaches a file from the filesystem."""
        filename = os.path.basename(path)
        content = open(path, 'rb').read()
        self.attach_related(filename, content, mimetype)
    
    def _create_message(self, msg):
        return self._create_attachments(self._create_related_attachments(self._create_alternatives(msg)))
    
    def _create_alternatives(self, msg):       
        for i, (content, mimetype) in enumerate(self.alternatives):
            if mimetype == 'text/html':
                for filename, _, _ in self.related_attachments:
                    content = re.sub(r'(?<!cid:)%s' % re.escape(filename), 'cid:%s' % filename, content)
                self.alternatives[i] = (content, mimetype)
        
        return super(EmailMultiRelated, self)._create_alternatives(msg)
    
    def _create_related_attachments(self, msg):
        encoding = self.encoding or settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET
        if self.related_attachments:
            body_msg = msg
            msg = SafeMIMEMultipart(_subtype=self.related_subtype, encoding=encoding)
            if self.body:
                msg.attach(body_msg)
            for related in self.related_attachments:
                msg.attach(self._create_related_attachment(*related))
        return msg
    
    def _create_related_attachment(self, filename, content, mimetype=None):
        """
        Convert the filename, content, mimetype triple into a MIME attachment
        object. Adjust headers to use Content-ID where applicable.
        Taken from http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4771
        """
        attachment = super(EmailMultiRelated, self)._create_attachment(filename, content, mimetype)
        if filename:
            mimetype = attachment['Content-Type']
            del(attachment['Content-Type'])
            del(attachment['Content-Disposition'])
            attachment.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'inline', filename=filename)
            attachment.add_header('Content-Type', mimetype, name=filename)
            attachment.add_header('Content-ID', '<%s>' % filename)
        return attachment


"""
Invocation
"""

msg = EmailMultiRelated('Subject', 'Plain text version', 'John Foo <[email protected]>', ['Jane Bar <[email protected]'])

html = '<html><body><p>This is my nicely <strong>formatted</strong> message. <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email</a> me back.</p><img src="inline.jpg"></body></html'

msg.attach_alternative(html, 'text/html')

for image in event.attachment_set.all():
    msg.attach_related_file(image.file.path)

ics_data = '''BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//HunterFord//EN
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
URL:http://example.com
DTSTART:20101001T200000
DTEND:20101001T235959
SUMMARY:Fall is in the Air
ORGANIZER;CN=John Foo:MAILTO:[email protected]
LOCATION:Home
DESCRIPTION:
PRIORITY:3
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR'''

msg.attach('event.ics', ics_data, 'text/calendar')
msg.send()

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