Kindly note that GAE doesnt support sending of HTML mails, so my solution wont work on GAE, check my solution to something related https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/web2py/sR38-f677io
On Sunday, September 23, 2012 8:15:36 PM UTC+1, Pystar wrote: > > Ok, I solved it. The trick is that message is first text, then html. So > the signature should read like this: > > context = dict(x=y) > message = response.render("message.html", context) > ***Please note that the message.html file should be in the top level of > your views folder or should be a absolute path to it. > > mail.send(to=[recipient],subject='subject',message=message) > > will result in a text message. > > to render as html, is : > > mail.send(to=[recipient],subject='subject',message=[None,message]) > > On Sunday, September 23, 2012 8:05:24 PM UTC+1, Pystar wrote: >> >> Using this method, the mail is sent successfully,but shows raw html code >> in the email client, i.e. its not rendering >> >> >> On Friday, September 7, 2012 4:19:45 PM UTC+1, Niphlod wrote: >>> >>> it's a path relative to the app's *views *folder. With this code your * >>> message.html* should be next to layout.html, just in the *yourapp/views/ >>> * folder. >>> >>> Il giorno venerdì 7 settembre 2012 17:04:27 UTC+2, Daniel Gonzalez ha >>> scritto: >>>> >>>> As explained here: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/8#Using-the-template-system-to-generate-messages >>>> >>>> The following code can be used to render a view file to send via email: >>>> >>>> for person in db(db.person).select(): >>>> context = dict(person=person) >>>> message = response.render('message.html', context) >>>> mail.send(to=['w...@example.com'], >>>> subject='None', >>>> message=message) >>>> >>>> I have tried this, but I am not able to place the "message.html" >>>> correctly in the directory hierarchy. >>>> How does reponse.render find the view files, or, even better, how can I >>>> tell response.render where to find my template file? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Daniel >>>> >>> --