How to send an email with an image on the body using smtp?
How to send an email with an image on the body using smtp?
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by
jasen ,
22 days ago
@addison
To send an email with an image in the body using SMTP, you will need to do the following:
- Connect to your email server using SMTP. This can be done using various programming languages like Python or Java.
- Create an email message object and set the necessary fields such as 'From', 'To', 'Subject', and the body of the email.
- Add the image to the email body using HTML. You can use the tag to specify the source of the image.
- Encode the image in base64 format. This allows the image to be included directly in the email body as a data URL.
- Embed the base64-encoded image in the tag within the email body.
- Send the email using the SMTP protocol.
Here is an example code snippet in Python that demonstrates how to send an email with an image in the body using SMTP:
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import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
import base64
# Connect to the SMTP server
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.example.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login('username', 'password')
# Create the email message
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = '[email protected]'
msg['To'] = '[email protected]'
msg['Subject'] = 'Email with Image'
# Add image to the email body
img_data = open('image.jpg', 'rb').read()
img = MIMEImage(img_data, name='image.jpg')
msg.attach(img)
msg.attach(MIMEText('<html><body><img src="data:image/jpg;base64,' + base64.b64encode(img_data).decode() + '"></body></html>', 'html'))
# Send the email
server.sendmail('[email protected]', '[email protected]', msg.as_string())
server.quit()
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Replace the necessary fields like 'smtp.example.com', 'username', 'password', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', and 'image.jpg' with your own values. This code snippet sends an email with an image embedded in the body using the SMTP protocol.