Reading text file and sending mails to outlook using Python

Question

I am reading .txt file in Python code and I should get the same mail body what I have in my text file. It is working fine but hyperlinks not displayed in my outlook email, it displays only as text in outlook email.

Below is the code:

Mail_Content = open("MailBody.txt","r")
    Read_Content = Mail_Content.read()

In the text file , passing content like this for hyperlink:

<a href="link">linkname</a>,'html'

Please help me out, I am trying to fix this from last two days.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '22 at 21:40

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Firstly, you really need to show the code that sets the message body. Secondly, make sure you set the MailItem.HTMLBody rather than the plaintext MailItem.Body.

answered Aug 07 '22 at 21:40

Dmitry Streblechenko

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Mail_Content = open("MailBody.txt","r") Read_Content = Mail_Content.read() newMail.HTMLBody = Read_Content.format(plan date=Plan Date) – Shruthi Aug 08 '22 at 07:51
Below is MailBody.txt file . – Shruthi Aug 08 '22 at 07:52
Hello All, Please find the workload report. You can update it in sprint {plan date}. For anything you can follow below link. Codeacademy,'html' – Shruthi Aug 08 '22 at 07:53
If I use MailItem.HTMLBody, link displays properly in outlook email, but Email format is not proper – Shruthi Aug 08 '22 at 07:54
please see my above comments. Thanks in advance – Shruthi Aug 08 '22 at 08:10
What do you mean by " Email format is not proper"? – Dmitry Streblechenko Aug 08 '22 at 13:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '22 at 16:58

Make sure the BodyFormat property is set up correctly before setting the HTMLBody property in the code, for example, here is a VBA sample which shows how to set up it properly:

Sub CreateHTMLMail() 
 'Creates a new email item and modifies its properties. 
 Dim objMail As MailItem 
 'Create mail item 
 Set objMail = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem) 
 With objMail 
   'Set body format to HTML 
   .BodyFormat = olFormatHTML 
   .HTMLBody = "<HTML><H2>The body of this message will appear in HTML.</H2><BODY>Type the message text here. </BODY></HTML>" 
   .Display 
 End With 
End Sub

Reading text file and sending mails to outlook using Python

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