Tim, You are most correct, replace_header did the trick.
Thanks a bunch. Philippe Tim Williams wrote: > "Philippe C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> I have the following problem: >> 1) I can use smtplib to send text messages >> 2) I can generate html >> 3) I want to email the html and want it to be seen by the email client as >> html. >> >> However, when I receive the message, the email client displays it as text >> (code hereunder) - I assume it has to do with the MIMEText call but since > I >> cannot see any MIMEhtml ..... > > > I suspect you need one of the following lines. > > msg.replace_header('Content-Type', 'text/html') > > msg.add_header('Content-Type', 'text/html') > > > HTH :) > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
