I would like to use the node-red-contrib-email-out node, or something similar, to send an HTML email that contains an image in the body of the email based on a triggered event. I have read the documentation on how to send plain text, but I cant find and code samples or documentation on how to send an HTML email. Can anybody point me in the right direction, or have I poorly selected the node for the task?

This thread might help: [image] How to send an image from mqtt in an email General Sure the examples help you - you adapt them. Just because someone hasnt done it before they ceraintly have send images, they have converted buffers to base64 and back. So taking this thread I made this... [image] and received this in my inbox... [image] sample flow (note i deleted the email node for privacy)... [{"id":"e73e2624.4459a8","type":"inject","z":"e360ac5b.0ab79","name":"base 64 image","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onc…

Were you able to get this done? I am also looking for similar feature, and a forum search led me here, unfortunately no solution / hints available in my search.. anyone have a solution ?

You can just set msg.payload to a html string and it will become an html formatted email (?)

wish i knew how... going to google now.

it was indeed very useful. learnt a new thing today. thank you.

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