How to send an email with an image on the body using smtp?

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by addison , in category: Third Party Scripts , 8 days ago

How to send an email with an image on the body using smtp?

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by jasen , 7 days ago

@addison 

To send an email with an image in the body using SMTP, you will need to do the following:

  1. Connect to your email server using SMTP. This can be done using various programming languages like Python or Java.
  2. Create an email message object and set the necessary fields such as 'From', 'To', 'Subject', and the body of the email.
  3. Add the image to the email body using HTML. You can use the tag to specify the source of the image.
  4. Encode the image in base64 format. This allows the image to be included directly in the email body as a data URL.
  5. Embed the base64-encoded image in the tag within the email body.
  6. 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()


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.