Sending from HTML templates

[YoYo-Russ]

Hi,

I'm looking to speed up a couple of work processes involving the sending and receiving of mails to different folders.

So far simplegmail has been amazing so thank you Jeremy!

I've run into a bit of hitch recently when working on sending mails. I'd like to use my current templates which are all stored as .html files.

Is there a method of sending my email templates if I set my params up in the usual fashion? :
params = { "to": "test@example.com", "sender": "me@example.com", "subject": "this is a test message", "msg_html": #how would I 'inject?' my .html template here?, "msg_plain": "This is a test message" }

[jeremyephron]

Hi @YoYo-Russ, I recommend you create the output html separate from this package. This could be as simple as using standard string formatting or you could use a template engine like jinja.

Using standard string formatting would look like

html_template = """<p>Hi {name},</p>
...
"""

msg_html = html.template.format(name="YoYo-Russ")

That kind of string formatting won't be suitable for sufficiently complex templates, and something like Jinja is a lot more robust.

Hope this helps!