1 00:00:01,340 --> 00:00:08,180 In the previous video, you learned how to send a plain text email using Outlook or Hotmail. 2 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:15,380 In this video, you'll learn how to sense a more rich email with HTML, where you can change the font 3 00:00:15,860 --> 00:00:17,600 by using HTML code. 4 00:00:19,130 --> 00:00:23,600 So, the code you see is the code that we wrote in the previous video. 5 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,390 This code sends a plain text email. 6 00:00:26,660 --> 00:00:33,200 No, let's change what we need to change so that we can send HTML instead of text. 7 00:00:33,590 --> 00:00:39,170 So HTML, as you know, is the code that we use to build websites. 8 00:00:40,070 --> 00:00:44,510 And so using that code, you can change the font and the size of the text. 9 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,490 So to use the HTML in the body of the email 10 00:00:50,210 --> 00:01:00,440 we need to import a few classes from email.mime.text import 11 00:01:01,950 --> 00:01:04,160 MiMETexts. 12 00:01:05,069 --> 00:01:16,350 So with capital letters up to here and then ext, we also need from email.mime.multipart 13 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:17,790 import 14 00:01:19,090 --> 00:01:26,110 MIMEMultipart, you're going to see what exactly these classes are used for. 15 00:01:27,250 --> 00:01:34,360 So let's leave those imports there for now, and then we declare the sender, which should be Hotmail 16 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:35,140 or outlook. 17 00:01:35,590 --> 00:01:42,130 Again, the receiver could be any email address and the password is the password of the sender. 18 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:50,650 Then, instead of creating one single variable which has this multiline string, we want to delete 19 00:01:50,650 --> 00:01:51,010 that. 20 00:01:51,460 --> 00:01:54,100 And this time we want to create 21 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:01,960 a MIMEMultipart class instead of just a plain string. 22 00:02:02,650 --> 00:02:05,080 So what is MIMEMultipart? 23 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:15,180 Well, mime means multi-purpose internet mail extensions, which is a standard that allows you to 24 00:02:15,190 --> 00:02:21,070 send not only text, but all the characters and attachments through emails. 25 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,040 So with this, we are sending an email with different parts, so to say. 26 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:33,570 And in here, we simply instantiate MIMEMultipart and then 27 00:02:33,580 --> 00:02:41,530 we refer to that variable message, and then we refer to keys of that message. 28 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:47,750 So this is in the form of a dictionary, basically, and it's has different keys. 29 00:02:47,770 --> 00:02:57,880 So from with a Capital F, this defines who the sender is, so message from equal to sender and then 30 00:02:58,690 --> 00:02:59,290 message 31 00:03:01,190 --> 00:03:01,760 to. 32 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:10,830 So we are basically assigning values to the two key and to the from key of the message dictionary. 33 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:17,790 This is the receiver, of course, and message subject. 34 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:26,310 Now the subject is always plain text so we can use a string here such as hello again. 35 00:03:27,710 --> 00:03:35,990 Now, the body of the email is a bit not as simple as declaring like that, like we did from 36 00:03:36,140 --> 00:03:44,480 to and subject for the body, you first want to create again, a multi-line string with triple quotes. 37 00:03:44,780 --> 00:03:48,500 But now this can be HTML code. 38 00:03:48,770 --> 00:03:53,660 So for example, if you use an h1 tag and say "Hi there". 39 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:04,200 And then you close the H1 tag with those characters, so "Hi there" will be displayed as big text 40 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:06,590 because it has this heading. 41 00:04:07,990 --> 00:04:09,610 A big heading h1. 42 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,700 If you want it smaller, you'd want to use a h2. 43 00:04:13,270 --> 00:04:17,980 So let's keep it h2, and then you can write other text. 44 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:28,640 H3 or just plain text, such as there are only two cats flying today. 45 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,090 Let's hope for more. 46 00:04:32,870 --> 00:04:37,790 So that's the body of the email and you'll see how it looks like. 47 00:04:37,790 --> 00:04:44,710 Now once you create the body as a string, you want to attach it somehow to the message variable. To do that 48 00:04:46,340 --> 00:04:51,840 you use the attach method, so we're not doing any email attachments. 49 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:59,060 Don't confuse it with the attachment, this is just a method that attaches the body of the email. 50 00:04:59,450 --> 00:05:02,180 This is variable as the email body. 51 00:05:02,870 --> 00:05:13,070 Now this attach method expects not this body variable, but a more specialized object, and that is. 52 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:18,960 Let's say this variable is 53 00:05:18,980 --> 00:05:27,320 MIMEText, so that class that we imported there, which gets as inputs, the string, which contains 54 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,170 the body of the email, so body. 55 00:05:30,170 --> 00:05:35,930 But also you want to declare if this is plain text or HTML. 56 00:05:36,590 --> 00:05:44,840 If you leave it as plain, then these h two tags they will be displayed as they are in the email that 57 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:48,680 will be received by the receiver, so they will see these tags. 58 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:55,430 If you say HTML, then Python will understand that this is HTML and it will display this 59 00:05:55,430 --> 00:05:56,330 in big size. 60 00:05:56,540 --> 00:05:58,880 This "Hi there" without these tags. 61 00:06:00,590 --> 00:06:08,960 So that's what we want to do, and then mimetext goes in here so that it goes in here and then we establish 62 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,850 the server connection. 63 00:06:11,540 --> 00:06:14,350 We start with TLS protocol. 64 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:22,780 We log in and then we send an email from the sender to the receiver and message. 65 00:06:22,790 --> 00:06:32,000 No message is not the appropriate object type here because this 'sendemail', expects a string. 66 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:33,400 But the message is not. 67 00:06:33,410 --> 00:06:35,780 A string is some sort of dictionary. 68 00:06:36,740 --> 00:06:39,260 You see, it has these different keys and values. 69 00:06:39,740 --> 00:06:48,620 So what we want to do here is we want to convert that dictionary type of object to a string. 70 00:06:48,890 --> 00:06:53,870 To do that, you want to use message that as string. 71 00:06:55,070 --> 00:07:01,730 So that methods and store that into a variable message text, for example. 72 00:07:02,450 --> 00:07:09,560 And I'm just going to print it out for you to see what this is about and then provides here message 73 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,910 text instead of message and quit the server. 74 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:13,690 And that's it. 75 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:20,810 I'm going to run this now, and I will be expecting an email to the receiver email address from my 76 00:07:20,810 --> 00:07:22,250 Hotmail account. 77 00:07:22,790 --> 00:07:24,680 So I pressed on send. 78 00:07:27,250 --> 00:07:33,550 And we get this output. The first part is the output of the print function here. 79 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,230 So that's the message text. 80 00:07:37,860 --> 00:07:39,000 It includes 81 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:44,480 all that, the content type, these protocols. 82 00:07:44,510 --> 00:07:46,850 And then here again. 83 00:07:46,940 --> 00:07:51,080 So it's HTML and that's the body of the email. 84 00:07:52,690 --> 00:07:56,320 And then we have this error, probably you didn't receive it . If you did, 85 00:07:56,650 --> 00:08:01,390 that means your Hotmail or Outlook account is not verified. 86 00:08:01,750 --> 00:08:09,010 So if you receive this error, you should have received an email to your Hotmail or Outlook.com. 87 00:08:09,580 --> 00:08:14,390 That email is asking you to verify your email address using a phone number. 88 00:08:14,410 --> 00:08:15,580 So you have to do that. 89 00:08:16,270 --> 00:08:22,600 So I'm going to read that email and verify my account and then come back here and run this code again. 90 00:08:25,130 --> 00:08:29,270 OK, I have verified my Hotmail account, so I can run the code again. 91 00:08:31,990 --> 00:08:33,370 No errors this time. 92 00:08:34,059 --> 00:08:37,990 So let's check if we got the email. 93 00:08:39,309 --> 00:08:41,440 Check in your spam folder as well. 94 00:08:43,010 --> 00:08:44,750 Or wait a while. 95 00:08:47,530 --> 00:08:53,680 And yeah, here is a new email from automateeverythingwithpython@hotmail.com. 96 00:08:54,070 --> 00:08:59,380 So that's the email body. "Hi there" is . 97 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:00,440 So it's a heading. 98 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,850 It's in big fonts and that's the subject also. 99 00:09:05,220 --> 00:09:11,610 So that's a complete code on how to send emails using HTML in the body of the email. 100 00:09:12,180 --> 00:09:19,230 In the next video, I'll show you how to attach a file to an email that you send with your outlook or 101 00:09:19,230 --> 00:09:20,070 Hotmail account. 102 00:09:20,340 --> 00:09:21,570 So I'll see you in the next video.