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diff --git a/docs/topics/email.txt b/docs/topics/email.txt
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+++ b/docs/topics/email.txt
@@ -476,17 +476,26 @@ email backend API :ref:`provides an alternative
directly to the resulting message. For example, to attach an inline
image with a :mailheader:`Content-ID`::
+ import email.utils
+ from email.message import MIMEPart
+ from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives
+
+ message = EmailMultiAlternatives(...)
+ image_data_bytes = ... # Load image as bytes
+
+ # Create a random Content-ID, including angle brackets
cid = email.utils.make_msgid()
inline_image = email.message.MIMEPart()
inline_image.set_content(
image_data_bytes,
maintype="image",
- subtype="png",
+ subtype="png", # or "jpeg", etc. depending on the image type
disposition="inline",
- cid=f"<{cid}>",
+ cid=cid,
)
message.attach(inline_image)
- message.attach_alternative(f'… <img src="cid:${cid}"> …', "text/html")
+ # Refer to Content-ID in HTML without angle brackets
+ message.attach_alternative(f'… <img src="cid:{cid[1:-1]}"> …', "text/html")
Python's :meth:`email.contentmanager.set_content` documentation
describes the supported arguments for ``MIMEPart.set_content()``.