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I'd like to create a text/plain message using Markdown formatting and transform that into a multipart/alternative message where the text/html part has been generated from the Markdown.
I've tried using the filter command to filter this through a python program that creates the message, but it seems that the message doesn't get sent through properly. The code is below (this is just test code to see if I can make multipart/alternative messages at all.
import sys
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
html = """<html>
<body>
This is <i>HTML</i>
</body>
</html>
"""
msgbody = sys.stdin.read()
newmsg = MIMEMultipart("alternative")
plain = MIMEText(msgbody, "plain")
plain["Content-Disposition"] = "inline"
html = MIMEText(html, "html")
html["Content-Disposition"] = "inline"
newmsg.attach(plain)
newmsg.attach(html)
print newmsg.as_string()
Unfortunately, in mutt, you only get the message body sent to the filter command when you compose (the headers are not included). Once I get this working, I think the markdown part won't be too hard.
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Update: Someone wrote an article on configuring mutt for using with a python script. I have myself never done it. hashcash and mutt, the article goes through the configuration of muttrc and give code example.
Old answer
Does it solve your issue?
#!/usr/bin/env python
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
# create the message
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['Subject'] = "My subject"
msg['From'] = "[email protected]"
msg['To'] = "[email protected]"
# Text of the message
html = """<html>
<body>
This is <i>HTML</i>
</body>
</html>
"""
text="This is HTML"
# Create the two parts
plain = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
html = MIMEText(html, 'html')
# Let's add them
msg.attach(plain)
msg.attach(html)
print msg.as_string()
We save and test the program.
python test-email.py
Which gives:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="===============1440898741276032793=="
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: My subject
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
--===============1440898741276032793==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This is HTML
--===============1440898741276032793==
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<html>
<body>
This is <i>HTML</i>
</body>
</html>
--===============1440898741276032793==--
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