How to Configure FME Emailer for Plain Text Email?

oh weird which version of FME are you using.

Are you seeing the result only in the sent email but it looks of in the transformer or are you rather seeing the html in the transformer itself?

Do you perhaps have a screen shot or something you can share with an example of what you’re seeing?

Hey there,

Based on my testing (and what the docs say), the Emailer transformer always pushes the body out as HTML. I tried forcing the header to text/plain, but FME still wraps everything in minimal HTML tags when the mail actually lands.

In FME Flow Automations there is a dropdown where you can pick “Plain Text” or “HTML,” but that option isn’t exposed in the workspace-level Emailer transformer. If plain-text support is a must, you’ll probably need to log a feature request with Safe Software so they can add the same “Email Format” parameter to the transformer.

Short-term work-arounds:

1. Let Flow Automation handle the email (if you have Flow).

2. Use a PythonCaller (or external script) to hit your SMTP server directly and send a plain-text message.

Hope that helps!

Oh, I’m not seeing this in the doc - The first line of the help says:
 

Both HTML and Plain Text emails may be sent, each with one or more attachments.

But if that’s what you’ve seen in your testing then that’s a bit confusing. 

I am using version 2024.2.4.0 of FME. The process is created in FME Workbench and then published as an App in FME Flow. 

I have already tried editing the settings in the emailer, but it always ends up sending in HTML, and supposedly, online documents say that it is possible to create emails in plain text.

The “Syntax Highlighting” option you’re referring to is just for display purposes in the text editor. It helps with coloring the content while editing, but it doesn’t actually affect how the email is sent.

The main issue here is that the Emailer transformer doesn’t expose any setting for the content type, so you can’t really choose between plain text and HTML. As a result, it always ends up sending the email in HTML format, even if you write plain text in the body.

I wrapped my Emailer Body attribute in div textarea tags like this to make the xml display in outlook.

Note this still needs to be fixed @safe because the meta-http header can cause issues for apps reading the raw email body from a mailbox to parse it.

<div>
<textarea rows="10" cols="50" disabled>
@Value(message)
</textarea>
</div>

It looks like I’m not able to reproduce your issue. The mail I sent to a gmail account was plain text and not wrapped in HTML tags.

What mail service are you using? Are there any custom headers or attachments?