HTML in email templates

[TJ Keemon]

Hello-

Does anybody know if it's possible to put HTML in the email templates used for user registration, password resets, course enrollment, etc? I'm pretty sure these are most of the templates:

https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/tree/master/lms/templates/emails

It looks like sending bulk emails supports HTML:

https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/wiki/Bulk-Email

However, whenever I send an email under devstack, the content-type is set to text/plain. 

I'm a bit confused and I'm not sure where to go from here.

-TJ

[Chris Dodge]

Hello TJ,

Thanks for your interest in Open edX.

Unfortunately, the codebase has inconsistent support for HTML emails. As you mention, bulk email is HTML, however most of the other workflow emails (e.g. activation, password reset, etc.) are plain text.

I'm not sure if this is on edX's near-term roadmap to address, but - if you have the ability to write Python/Django - it should be relatively straightforward to add this functionality yourself (and contribute it back :-) )

Best wishes,

Chris Dodge

@edx.org

[TJ Keemon]

Hi Chris-

Thanks for the explanation. That was exactly the answer I was looking for. I'll definitely dig in a bit more and see about adding that functionality.

-TJ

[Sarina Canelake]

Django 1.7 has multipart email by default. There is a PR that is long stalled to port the Django 1.7 sendmail functionality into our repo: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/6681

part of the issue is the UX/Marketing effort we need to do internally to make sure the templates look good. Also we want to figure out how to provide default templates for Open edX and use different ones for edx.org.

[Felipe Montoya]

Hello TJ,

as Sarina said, there is a pull request I opened long ago to have that functionality merged in. At our instance, we have been doing html emails for something like a year already and it works very well. If you take a look at the PR and have any questions on how to use that or what you would require to change it, please let me know.

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Felipe Montoya

On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 5:57:57 PM UTC-5, TJ Keemon wrote:

[TJ Keemon]

Hi Felipe-

This looks great. Thanks for the link to your pull request. I'll take a closer look at it later this week.

-TJ

[Daniel McQuillen]

Wondering what the status is of HTML templates for non-bulk email.

The PR mentioned in this thread was closed in favor of #6681 (https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/6681) which was also closed with a note about Django 1.8 making the issue more easily resolved.

Is there now a standard way to create an html template for emails like registration, enrolment, etc.?

Thanks,

Daniel