Django test framework has some built in helpers to aid you with testing e-mail service. Example from docs (short version): from django.core import mail from django.test import TestCase class EmailTest(TestCase): def test_send_email(self): mail.send_mail(‘Subject here’, ‘Here is the message.’, ‘from@example.com’, [‘to@example.com’], fail_silently=False) self.assertEqual(len(mail.outbox), 1) self.assertEqual(mail.outbox[0].subject, ‘Subject here’)
The EOF token must be at the beginning of the line, you can’t indent it along with the block of code it goes with. If you write <<-EOF you may indent it, but it must be indented with Tab characters, not spaces. So it still might not end up even with the block of code. … Read more
It can be a bit dense to read, but the “Content-Transfer-Encoding” section of RFC 1341 has all of the details: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/5_Content-Transfer-Encoding.html The situation kinda goes from bad to worse. Here’s my summary: Background SMTP, by definition (RFC 821), limits mail to lines of 1000 characters of 7 bits each. That means that none of the … Read more
The way I’m doing it now is basically like this: The HTML: <textarea id=”myText”> Lorem ipsum… </textarea> <button onclick=”sendMail(); return false”>Send</button> The Javascript: function sendMail() { var link = “mailto:me@example.com” + “?cc=myCCaddress@example.com” + “&subject=” + encodeURIComponent(“This is my subject”) + “&body=” + encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById(‘myText’).value) ; window.location.href = link; } This, surprisingly, works rather well. The only … Read more
Simple code to send email with attachement. source: http://www.coding-issues.com/2012/11/sending-email-with-attachments-from-c.html using System.Net; using System.Net.Mail; public void email_send() { MailMessage mail = new MailMessage(); SmtpClient SmtpServer = new SmtpClient(“smtp.gmail.com”); mail.From = new MailAddress(“your mail@gmail.com”); mail.To.Add(“to_mail@gmail.com”); mail.Subject = “Test Mail – 1”; mail.Body = “mail with attachment”; System.Net.Mail.Attachment attachment; attachment = new System.Net.Mail.Attachment(“c:/textfile.txt”); mail.Attachments.Add(attachment); SmtpServer.Port = 587; SmtpServer.Credentials … Read more
You can use the MailDefinition class. This is how you use it: MailDefinition md = new MailDefinition(); md.From = “test@domain.example”; md.IsBodyHtml = true; md.Subject = “Test of MailDefinition”; ListDictionary replacements = new ListDictionary(); replacements.Add(“{name}”, “Martin”); replacements.Add(“{country}”, “Denmark”); string body = “<div>Hello {name} You’re from {country}.</div>”; MailMessage msg = md.CreateMailMessage(“you@anywhere.example”, replacements, body, new System.Web.UI.Control()); Also, I’ve … Read more
The image should be embedded in the message as an attachment like this: –boundary Content-Type: image/png; name=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9110091/sig.png” Content-Disposition: inline; filename=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9110091/sig.png” Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-ID: <0123456789> Content-Location: sig.png base64 data –boundary And, the HTML part would reference the image like this: <img src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9110091/cid:0123456789″> In some clients, src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9110091/sig.png” will work too. You’d basically have a multipart/mixed, multipart/alternative, multipart/related … Read more
The following code works very well with Google SMTP server. You need to supply your Google username and password. import com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport; import java.security.Security; import java.util.Date; import java.util.Properties; import javax.mail.Message; import javax.mail.MessagingException; import javax.mail.Session; import javax.mail.internet.AddressException; import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress; import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage; /** * * @author doraemon */ public class GoogleMail { private GoogleMail() { } /** * … Read more
Action Mailer now has a built in way of previewing emails in Rails 4.1. For example, check this out: # located in test/mailers/previews/notifier_mailer_preview.rb class NotifierPreview < ActionMailer::Preview # Accessible from http://localhost:3000/rails/mailers/notifier/welcome def welcome Notifier.welcome(User.first) end end
The right way is to follow the HTML standard. You can validate your HTML page here. Your mail client should follow it and should throw away what’s not supported or what’s insecure, like JavaScript. I’ll expose some reasons why following standards could be beneficial here: a webmail willing to show your mail as a full … Read more