How to compose an email with HTML in Flutter?

html email dart flutter document-body

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I found that using share one can select the standard iOS Mail app. If I pass HTML to this package, it will not launch the app separately, but will enable the user to compose the email inside the app, which is what I want:

Share.share('<html>Check out the <a href=\"https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/share\">share</a> Flutter package!</html>');

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Hahnemann

Updated on December 08, 2022

Comments

Hahnemann over 1 year
I am using flutter_email_sender to compose an email using the native iOS Mail app inside my Flutter app:
```
import 'package:flutter_email_sender/flutter_email_sender.dart';
Future<void> sendEmail(String subject, String body) async {
  final Email email = Email(
    body: body,
    subject: subject,
  );
  String platformResponse;
  try {
    await FlutterEmailSender.send(email);
    platformResponse = 'success';
  } catch (error) {
    platformResponse = error.toString();
  }
  if (!mounted) return;
  print(platformResponse);
}
```
However my goal is to send HTML in the body of the email. When I pass markup to String body the email is composed but not in markup, just text.

I am aware of url_launcher but that package launches the Mail app. I want the email composed as if I was calling MFMailComposeViewController in iOS.
- Vinicius Pinto over 5 years
  
  The current version of flutter_email_sender sets the isHTML parameter of MFMailComposeViewController to false, so I guess no HTML for now. Have you tried flutter_mailer? It allows a custom value for isHTML, but it's a new project and the iOS support is marked as 'in progress'.
- Hahnemann over 5 years
  
  I have not - I'll give it a try and report back.
- Randal Schwartz over 5 years
  
  Just a point of reference... I delete automatically any email that has an HTML fork but not an equivalent text fork, as 95% of that email is just spam.
- Hahnemann over 5 years
  
  The package flutter_mailer shows promise but I could not make it work on iOS. I'm going to stick with share.