Why are emails being sent out as text and not html with post-office as backend?

We've recently set up askbot to use python-django-post_office as the email backend at askfedora. I've noticed that the emails we're getting are now plain text, and not html as they used to be.

post-office seems to have two different variables for plain text mail "message", and html mail "html_message" (see the documentation on mail.send toward the end of this page) instead of using the "attach_alternative" system that's advised

Is this the issue?

Filed one nevertheless

FranciscoD

asked 2013-06-01 03:01:24 -0600

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This was fixed in python-django-post_office via this issue:

https://github.com/ui/django-post_office/issues/16

HTML mails now work with python-django-post_office as back end too.

FranciscoD

answered 2013-06-14 03:13:07 -0600

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We did not foresee such usage. Possibly functions askbot.mail.send_mail and askbot.mail.mail_moderators can be modified to support other mail backends (other than django-'l "smtp" backend).

If you make a fix like this - please make a pull request on the github.