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I have searched SO and well as google and cannot seem to find a solution to my problem. I am trying to send a HTML formatted email within R using sendmailR package. The plain text email works just fine, but then am unable to switch from plain text to HTML.
My code:
require(sendmailR)
from <- "[email protected]"
message = "<HTML><body><b>Hello</b></body></HTML>"
to = c("[email protected]")
subject = "Test Monitor Alert"
sendmail(from, to, subject, msg = msg,control=list(smtpServer="smtp-gw1.wal-mart.com"),headers=list("Content-Type"="text/html; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed"))
I do get the email, but its in plain text and the email body contains the message as is instead of the HTML formatted text. Please help.
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This is possible, cf https://stackoverflow.com/a/21930556/448145 Just add:
msg <- mime_part(message)
msg[["headers"]][["Content-Type"]] <- "text/html"
sendmail(from, to, subject, msg = msg, ...)
sendmailR cannot do this because it is hard-coded to send the message part out as text. If you look at the packages source, line 38 of sendmail.R is the following:
writeLines("Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed\r\n", sock, sep="\r\n")
Change that to
writeLines("Content-Type: text/html; format=flowed\r\n", sock, sep="\r\n")
like you tried to do through the options and it will work.
Update: sendmailR now allows html emails (see Karl's answer below and https://stackoverflow.com/a/21930556/448145).
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With the mailR package (https://github.com/rpremraj/mailR), you could send HTML emails with ease as below:
send.mail(from = "[email protected]",
to = c("[email protected]", "[email protected]"),
subject = "Subject of the email",
body = "<html>The apache logo - <img src=\"http://www.apache.org/images/asf_logo_wide.gif\"></html>",
html = TRUE,
smtp = list(host.name = "smtp.gmail.com", port = 465, user.name = "gmail_username", passwd = "password", ssl = TRUE),
attach.files = c("./download.log", "upload.log"),
authenticate = TRUE,
send = TRUE)
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