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=['[email protected]'],
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
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