Android Question Email and HTML

AlpVir · Jun 22, 2015

How to send an email that contains the HTML code ?

B4X:

Dim Message As Email
Message.To.Add("[email protected]")   
Message.Subject = "Test html"
Message.Body = "<table><tr><td>Test <b>one</b></td></tr></table>"
Message.GetHtmlIntent
StartActivity(Message.GetHtmlIntent)

Despite numerous tests I have not achieved my goal.
Thanks in advance

NJDude · Jun 22, 2015

If you look above, under SIMILAR THREADS, you will find several posts addressing this issue.

AlpVir · Jun 22, 2015

Thanks but I have read many posts on this topic but I could not finish anything.
For this reason that I ask for help.

sorex · Jun 22, 2015

you are missing the html & body tags to start with. not sure what else is needed to force it into html mode on android tho.

Erel · Jun 22, 2015

Your code is correct (though you are calling GetHtmlIntent twice for some reason).

Try it with a simple html: <b>Hello</b> world.

AlpVir · Jun 22, 2015

After eliminating the double GetHtmlIntent the simple example <b> Hello </ b> works.
But it does not work with the tags table. This is very serious for me.

B4X:

Message.Body = "<table><tr><td><b>Hello</b></td></tr><tr><td>no bold</td></tr></table>"

Either by entering the tag <HTML> and <BODY> or <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'> or <!DOCTYPE html> ....
The use of the tables is essential for me.

Erel · Jun 23, 2015

If you check the raw message received in your mail client you will see that the html is sent as is. Maybe your mail client doesn't support tables.

AlpVir · Jun 23, 2015

I do not know how to read the message in raw format.
I have read many post, according to which the <TABLE> tag is not processed by the email client. It seems that it only supported the <B> and <BR>
Having the need to send emails with formatted text I also thought of sending a single image that shows the screenshot of a table.
But even this seems to work.

B4X:

Message.Body="<html><body><img src=" & Chr(34) & "file://" & File.DirAssets & "/Classe.png" & Chr(34) & "></body></html>"

How to fix it (formatted text only)?

sorex · Jun 23, 2015

and how will people see the image that is on your phone?

AlpVir · Jun 23, 2015

The image is created from the app by reading a db and is inserted in an email.
I attach an example that could be accomplished with a table.
Since it seems that the tables can not be sent with an email I thought it could conversely be sent image.
I would not use attachments.
With a table (<TABLE><TR> .......) would be much simpler !

DonManfred · Jun 23, 2015

Store the images on your server and inside your html code you load the image from the absolute url on your server.

sorex · Jun 23, 2015

or use a php script that send the mail after you posted your mail content to it.
disadvantage is you need to be online.

AlpVir · Jun 23, 2015

There is no server on which to store the image.
The image created on the fly from the app, should be sent via email.
It 's really impossible to send an email with the text (body) in HTML (<TABLE> <TR>, etc.) ?

sorex · Jun 23, 2015

it shouldn't be, it's just text.

I'll see if I can test this here.

AlpVir · Jun 23, 2015

Thank you.
I repeat: in Message.body you can insert tags such as <TABLE> or <TR>.
They are ignored; this is what I could understand / experience so far
I use Android 2.3.3

sorex · Jun 23, 2015

will check at home, Win8.1 on my new desktop at work doesn't recognize my phone.

Picena Informatica · Jun 23, 2015

B4X:

message.htmlbody=true

sorex · Jun 23, 2015

ok, now I see what you are trying to do.

I think you're better of by sending the mail via an smtp server, I thought you were trying to do that already.

AlpVir · Jun 23, 2015

@picenainformatica
The Email object has no property HTMLBody.
The object SMTP instead have it.
I, however, I have to use an object Email.

sorex · Jun 23, 2015

the problem is that the mail client vary from device to device so it's not certain that it will always work.

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