I am trying to send an html formatted email using SendMail() in PeopleCode. What I am trying to do is very a basic html email (e.g. bolded text, a href tags, etc).
We recently upgraded to PeopleTools 8.52
When I use the default SendMail() example from PeopleBooks, The email is sent as plain text, regardless of the fact that I specified the content type as "text/html".
Local string &MAIL_CC, &MAIL_TO, &MAIL_BCC, &MAIL_SUBJECT, &MAIL_TITLES, &MAIL_TEXT, &MAIL_FILES, &MAIL_FROM, &REPLYTO, &SENDER;
Local number &MAIL_FLAGS;
&MAIL_FLAGS = 0;
&MAIL_TO = "laurie_thomas#peoplesoft.com";
&MAIL_CC = "";
&MAIL_BCC = "";
&MAIL_SUBJECT = "Testing SendMail - Are you receiving Attachment?";
&MAIL_TEXT = "This is a test for SendMail function";
&MAIL_FILES = "/data9/ps/e841g2bp/lat/attach.txt";
&MAIL_TITLES = "";
&MAIL_FROM = "peoplesoft#peoplesoft.com";
&MAIL_SEP = ";";
&CONTTYPE = "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8";
&REPLYTO = "lthomas#peoplesoft.com";
&SENDER = "00972#peoplesoft.com";
&RET = SendMail(&MAIL_FLAGS, &MAIL_TO, &MAIL_CC, &MAIL_BCC, &MAIL_SUBJECT, &MAIL_TEXT, &MAIL_FILES, &MAIL_TITLES, &MAIL_FROM, &MAIL_SEP, &CONTTYPE, &REPLYTO,&SENDER);
If &RET <> 0 Then
MessageBox(0, "", 0, 0, "Return code from SendMail=" | &RET);
End-If;
As it turns out, this is a documented bug observed by Oracle (Bug:13714374). This occurs when upgrading from PeopleTools 8.51 to 8.52 (which is why it happened to us).
Solution from Oracle:
This Bug Fixed in the PT 8.52.08 patch, which became available on
05/24/2012
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I’m using python to send emails using Mailgun’s SMTP server. I wish to use Mailgun’s builtin ability to tag my messages, and to track open and click events.
I know this can be done using Mailgun’s send message API, by adding headers like o:tag, o:tracking, o:tracking-clicks and o:tracking-opens (as explained here: https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/api-sending.html#sending)
However, seeing as I'm the SMTP gateway and not the API, I’m trying to understand how to achieve the same result - emails that are tagged and fully tracked in Mailgun.
Any thoughts on how it can be done?
This is my little script at the moment:
message = MIMEMultipart("alternative")
message["Subject"] = "This is an email"
message["From"] = “<from email>”
message["To"] = “<to email>”
htmlpart = MIMEText("<html><body>email here!</body></html>", "html")
message.attach(htmlpart)
server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(“<smtp server>”, 465)
server.ehlo()
server.login(“<username>”, “<password>”)
server.sendmail(from_addr=“<from email>”, to_addrs=“<to email>”, msg=message.as_string())
server.close()
Found it!
The following X-Mailgun headers can be added:
https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/user_manual.html#sending-via-smtp
So my script would be:
message = MIMEMultipart("alternative")
message["Subject"] = "This is an email"
message["From"] = “<from email>”
message["To"] = “<to email>”
message["X-Mailgun-Tag"] = "<tag>"
message["X-Mailgun-Track"] = "yes"
message["X-Mailgun-Track-Clicks"] = "yes"
message["X-Mailgun-Track-Opens"] = "yes"
htmlpart = MIMEText("<html><body>email here!</body></html>", "html")
message.attach(htmlpart)
server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(“<smtp server>”, 465)
server.ehlo()
server.login(“<username>”, “<password>”)
server.sendmail(from_addr=“<from email>”, to_addrs=“<to email>”, msg=message.as_string())
server.close()
Now my email is tagged (can be analysed on a tag level in Mailgun), and clicks are tracked.
Happy days!
I have a flask application, where I want to send an email, along with some data fetched from a form. Everything works fine, but the issue is, that when the email is received the HTML code is not rendered it is only displayed the raw code. Here is what I have done so far
if google_response['success']: #this line is used for a ReCaptcha response
msg = Message('Thank you for contacting me', sender='(my email address is put here as a string)', recipients=[request.form['email']])
name = request.form['name']
msg.body = render_template('email.html', name=name)
mail.send(msg)
return render_template('index.html')
else:
return render_template('index.html')
What, am I doing wrong?
I am assuming this has to do with how you are creating your email. You should be using a Multipart Email to do so. My guess would be that you're using using your HTML as the text for the email and not actually attaching it to the email.
Since you haven't provided us with any of that code, I'll give you an example of how to generate an email that includes HTML formatting.
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
import smtplib
to_address = ''
from_address = ''
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['Subject'] = ''
msg['From'] = from_address
msg['To'] = to_address
text = ''
html = 'your HTML code goes here'
part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')
msg.attach(part1)
msg.attach(part2)
mail = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
mail.ehlo()
mail.starttls()
mail.login('', '')
mail.sendmail(to_address, from_address, msg.as_string())
mail.quit()
How would you send an email using Lua?
The team I'm working with have a mail server, is that of any relevance?
Here is the code I'm using:
function send_email (email_to, email_subject, email_message)
local SMTP_SERVER = "mail.server.com"
local SMTP_AUTH_USER = "mail#domain.com"
local SMTP_AUTH_PW = "password"
local SMTP_PORT = "587"
local USER_SENDING = "mail#domain.com"
local smtp = require("socket.smtp")
local rcpt = {email_to}
local mesgt = {
headers = {
to = email_to,
from = USER_SENDING,
subject = email_subject
},
body = email_message
}
local r, e = smtp.send{
from = USER_SENDING,
rcpt = rcpt,
source = smtp.message(mesgt),
server = SMTP_SERVER,
port = SMTP_PORT,
user = SMTP_AUTH_USER,
password = SMTP_AUTH_PW
}
end
Using the LuaSocket SMTP API.
Your example looks correct, double check the SMTP settings and log the results:
local r, e = smtp.send{
from = USER_SENDING,
rcpt = rcpt,
source = smtp.message(mesgt),
server = SMTP_SERVER,
port = SMTP_PORT,
user = SMTP_AUTH_USER,
password = SMTP_AUTH_PW
}
-- Log SMTP results and potential errors
print(r, e)
Also, ensure that you're properly chaining your SMTP message using the LTN12 module API when it is multipart:
body = ltn12.source.chain(
ltn12.source.file(io.open("image.png", "rb")),
ltn12.filter.chain(
mime.encode("base64"),
mime.wrap()
)
)
Or the Mime module API for the EOL:
body = mime.eol(0, [[
Lines in a message body should always end with CRLF.
The smtp module will *NOT* perform translation. However, the
send function *DOES* perform SMTP stuffing, whereas the message
function does *NOT*.
]])
There is a much more verbose example of this in the LuaSocket SMTP API documentation.
The following is in a file all on its own:
<%
Dim mailtest
Set mailtest = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
mailtest.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing")=2
mailtest.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver")="localhost"
mailtest.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport")=25
mailtest.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate")=0
mailtest.Configuration.Fields.Update
mailtest.Subject = "Test email"
mailtest.From = "test#test.com"
mailtest.To = "test#test.com"
mailtest.HTMLBody = "£££"
mailtest.Send
%>
I'm using smtp4dev to receive the emails. When I open the email, the body is simply "###".
What on earth could be causing this? I could understand if they were changing to question marks or something due to encoding issues, but why might they be changing to hashes?
We are using the following script. It works fine if we call HTML/ASP from another URL but if we attempt to send mail from the domain the script is on the site times out and requires the application pool to be recycled.
The script also works if plain text is used and not HTML.
Any ideas folks?
<%#LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<%
Dim objCDO
Set objCDO = Server.CreateObject ("CDO.Message")
objCDO.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
objCDO.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "127.0.0.1"
objCDO.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
objCDO.Configuration.Fields.Update
objCDO.Subject = "XYZ Order"
objCDO.From = "all#xyz.co.uk"
objCDO.To = "user#user.com"
'objCDO.TextBody = "TEST E-MAIL"
objCDO.CreateMHTMLBody "http://www.xyz.co.uk/zzzHTML.asp"
objCDO.Send
Set objCDO = Nothing
%>