How to embed .png into HTML email?
Question
I'm currently using the following code to send an email (which contains a report) to users 3 times per day. I'd like to add in a graph to this email but can't seem to figure out how.
def HTML_Email(subject, to, html, files, filename):
import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.application import MIMEApplication
from os.path import basename
import email
import email.mime.application
# Create message container - the correct MIME type is
multipart/alternative.
msg = MIMEMultipart('mixed')
msg['Subject'] = subject
msg['From'] = "ChicagoGISScripts@mobilitie.com"
msg['To'] = ", ".join(to)
# Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html
part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')
# create PDF attachment
fp=open(files,'rb')
att = email.mime.application.MIMEApplication(fp.read(),_subtype="xlsx")
fp.close()
att.add_header('Content-Disposition','attachment',filename=filename)
# Attach parts into message container.
msg.attach(att)
msg.attach(part2)
# Send the message via local SMTP server.
user = 'ausername'
pwd = 'apassword'
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.office365.com',587)
s.ehlo()
s.starttls()
s.ehlo()
s.login(user,pwd)
s.sendmail(msg['From'], to, msg.as_string())
s.quit()
Typically I'll use something like this to go along with it, but I'm trying to include a .png that's stored locally on my computer. is not working to embed an image into the body of the email, what am I missing here?
html = """\
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<p><font face ="Gotham, monospace">Some HTML,<br><br>
<img src="C:\\Users\\Me\\Desktop\\graphs.png"></img></font>
</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
2 answers
solution1
2 ACCPTED 2017-06-29 18:55:34
Because you aren't hosting the image on a server, you won't be able to embed it in an email using a normal link. Try encoding the .png file into a data uri and setting that as the src
EDIT
Look at this other answer to see how to do this in python
EDIT 2
The resulting html should look like this
<img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" alt="Red dot" />
solution2
0 2017-06-29 18:59:37
Exactly what RemedialBear said. You have to host the email on a server and have an absolute src in your email body.
Instead of:
<img src="C:\\Users\\Me\\Desktop\\graphs.png">
You need:
<img src="http://www.somedomain.com/images/graphs.png" alt="Name' />
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