Send HTML email with libcurl?

filipdns

Hello,

I have project to send mail using libcurl with SMTP and proxy (I have to) and plain text is working fine but I need to change some color of part of the text sent, then I have to send HTML email for that.

I try with header parameters :

    headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Accept-Charset: \"UTF-8\"");
    headers  = curl_slist_append(headers, "Content-Type: \"text/html\"");
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,headers);

but nothing work, could you help me?

Thank you very much

mailnotification.h:

#ifndef MAILNOTIFICATION_H
#define MAILNOTIFICATION_H

#include <QDebug>
#include <curl/curl.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstddef>

using namespace std;

struct upload_status {
    int lines_read;
};


class mailNotification : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    QString from;
    QString to;
    QString cc;
    QString subject;
    char *message;
    QString date;
    QString mail;
    QString xxx;
    QString HtmlBody;
    long response_code;
    struct upload_status upload_ctx;
    QString status;

    CURL *curl;
    CURLcode res;
    struct curl_slist *recipients;
    char *msg;
    void resetParameters();
    void setPayloadText();
    void setDate();
    static size_t payload_source(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp);
    void setUser(QString username, QString password);
    void setAllCurlOptions();

    void sendEmail(QString  username, QString  password, QString  from, QString  subject, const char *message);
    
    void changeFrom(QString f);
    void changeTo(QString t);
    void changeCc(QString c);
    void changeSubject(QString s);
    void changeMessage(QString m);

private:
    QString username;
    QString password;
    static char *payload_text;
};


#endif // MAILNOTIFICATION_H

mailnotification.cpp

#include <QSqlDatabase>
#include <QtSql>
#include <QDateTime>
#include <cstring>
#include <yvals.h>
#include "mailnotification.h"

#pragma once
#ifndef _CSTRING_
#define _CSTRING_
#include <yvals.h>

#ifdef _STD_USING
 #undef _STD_USING
  #include <string.h>
 #define _STD_USING

#else /* _STD_USING */
 #include <string.h>
#endif /* _STD_USING */

 #if _GLOBAL_USING && !defined(RC_INVOKED)
_STD_BEGIN
using _CSTD size_t; using _CSTD memchr; using _CSTD memcmp;
using _CSTD memcpy; using _CSTD memmove; using _CSTD memset;
using _CSTD strcat; using _CSTD strchr; using _CSTD strcmp;
using _CSTD strcoll; using _CSTD strcpy; using _CSTD strcspn;
using _CSTD strerror; using _CSTD strlen; using _CSTD strncat;
using _CSTD strncmp; using _CSTD strncpy; using _CSTD strpbrk;
using _CSTD strrchr; using _CSTD strspn; using _CSTD strstr;
using _CSTD strtok; using _CSTD strxfrm;
_STD_END
 #endif /* _GLOBAL_USING */

#endif /* _CSTRING_ */
char* mailNotification::payload_text = NULL;

void mailNotification::resetParameters()
{
    this->res = CURLE_OK;
    this->recipients = NULL;
    this->upload_ctx.lines_read = 0;
    //qDebug() << "init curl done";
}

void mailNotification::setDate()
{
    QDateTime now = QDateTime::currentDateTime();
    qDebug()<<now;
    this->date = "test";//now.toString("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm");
    //qDebug() << "date";
}

size_t mailNotification::payload_source(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
{
    struct upload_status *upload_ctx = (struct upload_status *)userp;
    char *data;
    char *tt;

    if((size == 0) || (nmemb == 0) || ((size*nmemb) < 1)) {
        return 0;
    }

    data = strchr(payload_text, '\n');


    if(data)
    {
        size_t pSize = strlen(payload_text);
        size_t dSize = strlen(data);
        size_t diff = pSize-dSize;
        tt = (char*)malloc((diff + 1) * sizeof(char));
        strncpy(tt, payload_text, diff+1);

        tt[diff+1] = '\0';

        if(tt) {
            size_t len = strlen(tt);
            memcpy(ptr, tt, len);
            upload_ctx->lines_read++;
            payload_text = data + 1;
            //free(tt);
            return len;
        }
    }

    return 0;
}

void mailNotification::setUser(QString username, QString password)
{
    this->username = username;
    this->password = password;
}

void mailNotification::setAllCurlOptions()
{
    QString mailTo="xxx.gmail.com"
    this->recipients = curl_slist_append(this->recipients, this->mailTo.toStdString().c_str());
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_USERNAME, this->username.toStdString().c_str());
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_PASSWORD, this->password.toStdString().c_str());
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM, this->from.toStdString().c_str());
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT, this->recipients);
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_URL, "smtp://mailex.ign.fr:25");
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L);
    if(this->cc != ""){
        this->recipients = curl_slist_append(this->recipients, this->cc.toStdString().c_str());
    }
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, this->payload_source);
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_READDATA, &upload_ctx);
    curl_easy_setopt(this->curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L);
}

void mailNotification::sendEmail(QString username, QString  password, QString from, QString subject, const char *message)
{
    this->curl = curl_easy_init();
    setUser(username, password);
    changeFrom(from);
    changeCc("filipdns@gmail.com");
    changeSubject(subject);
    changeMessage(message);
    resetParameters();
    setPayloadText();
    setAllCurlOptions();

    this->res = curl_easy_perform(this->curl);

    /* Check for errors */
    if(this->res != CURLE_OK)
    fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n", curl_easy_strerror(this->res));
    if(res == CURLE_OK) {
      curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &response_code);
      status=curl_easy_strerror(this->res);//QString::number(response_code);
      qDebug()<<"status c++ "<<status;

    }
    curl_slist_free_all(this->recipients);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}

void mailNotification::changeFrom(QString f)
{
    this->from = f;
}

void mailNotification::changeTo(QString t)
{
    this->to = t;
}

void mailNotification::changeCc(QString c)
{
    this->cc = c;
}

void mailNotification::changeSubject(QString s)
{
    this->subject = s;
}

void mailNotification::changeMessage(QString m)
{
    this->HtmlBody = m;
}

void mailNotification::setPayloadText()
{
    payload_text = NULL;
    QString to_str = "To: <" +this->to+ ">\r\n";
    QString from_str = "From: <" +this->from+ ">\r\n";
    QString cc_str = "Cc: <" + this->cc + ">\r\n";
    QString date_str = "Date: " + this->date;
    QString subject_str = "Subject: " + this->subject +"\r\n";
    QString message_str = this->HtmlBody + "\r\n";
    


    if(this->cc == ""){
        xxx = date_str + to_str + from_str + QString("Message-ID: <dcd7cb36-11db-487a-9f3a-e652a9668efd@rfcpedant.example.org>\r\n") + subject_str + QString("\r\n") + message_str;
    }else{
        xxx = date_str + to_str + from_str + cc_str + subject_str + QString("\r\n") + message_str;

    }
    payload_text = (char*)malloc(xxx.length()*sizeof(char*));
    strcpy(payload_text ,xxx.toStdString().c_str());

}

man.cpp

#include <QApplication>
#include <QtSql>
#include "mailnotification.h"



int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
    mailNotification email;

    static const char inline_html[] =
      "<html><body>\r\n"
      "<p>This is the inline <b>HTML</b> message of the e-mail.</p>"
      "<br />\r\n"
      "<p>It could be a lot of HTML data that would be displayed by "
      "e-mail viewers able to handle HTML.</p>"
      "</body></html>\r\n";
    email.sendEmail("ident","password","mailFrom@gmail.com","Status",inline_html);
 return a.exec();

koahnig

@filipdns

That seems to be more suitable question for a curl forum. What you are using is not part of Qt libs.