Attach alternative in post-office? about django-post_office HOT 7 CLOSED

To send HTML email, you simply need to do:

mail.send(
    # other args
    html_message='<p>Hello world</p>'
)

Internally, post_office uses attach alternative so you don't have to deal with that.

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Ah! Hrm.. We're using post office as a backend for askbot at askfedora. The mail method already attaches alternatives from what I can make out. The mails are being sent out as plain text and not HTML though. Any hints on why?

Thanks,

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Ah ok, so askbot uses the lower level msg.send() method instead of post_office's mail.send method.

We should patch post office's EmailBackend.send_messages to detect HTML messages and persist the HTML component in the database accordingly.

This is indeed a bug so I'm gonna reopen this issue. Thanks for reporting it.

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Ah! Great. Thanks. I look forward to the fix. :)

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Thanks for the fix. Would just replacing the backends.py file be sufficient, or would I need to run any other steps to apply this fix?

I replaced the file but the mails are still only plaintext. Still investigating though.

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Simply replacing backends.py should be sufficient.

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Seems to work. Thanks for the quick fix!

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