Send HTML emails with embedded images in Django from templates. Required Django >= 1.4 and BeautifulSoup4 with lxml http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#parser-installation parser for automatically generat text version of email.
Add emailmultirelated to settings.INSTALLED_APPS
from emailmultirelated.mail import EmailMultiRelated
email = EmailMultiRelated('email title', to=['nex2hex@gmail.com'])
email.set_body_template('email_template.html', {})
email.send()
Example of email_template.html
{% load emailmultirelated %}
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head>
<body>
<img src="{% email_embedded_media "path_to_image_in_media_root_dir.png" %}" alt="" />
<img src="{% email_embedded_static "path_to_image_in_static_root_dir.png" %}" alt="" />
</body>
</html>
Required Jinja2
from emailmultirelated.mail import EmailMultiRelated
email = EmailMultiRelated('email title', to=['nex2hex@gmail.com'])
email.set_body_template('email_template.html', {}, using='jinja')
email.send()
Example of email_template.html
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head>
<body>
<img src="{% email_embedded_media "path_to_image_in_media_root_dir.png" %}" alt="" />
<img src="{% email_embedded_static "path_to_image_in_static_root_dir.png" %}" alt="" />
</body>
</html>