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# message

# `prefect_email.message`

Tasks for interacting with email message services

## Functions

### `email_send_message` <sup><a href="https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/main/src/integrations/prefect-email/prefect_email/message.py#L25" target="_blank"><Icon icon="github" style="width: 14px; height: 14px;" /></a></sup>

```python  theme={null}
email_send_message(subject: str, msg: str, email_server_credentials: 'EmailServerCredentials', msg_plain: Optional[str] = None, email_from: Optional[str] = None, email_to: Optional[Union[str, List[str]]] = None, email_to_cc: Optional[Union[str, List[str]]] = None, email_to_bcc: Optional[Union[str, List[str]]] = None, attachments: Optional[List[str]] = None, inline_images: Optional[dict[str, str]] = None)
```

Sends an email message from an authenticated email service over SMTP.
Sending messages containing HTML code is supported - the default MIME
type is set to the text/html.

**Args:**

* `subject`: The subject line of the email.
* `msg`: The contents of the email, added as html; can be used in
  combination with msg\_plain.
* `msg_plain`: The contents of the email as plain text,
  can be used in combination with msg.
* `email_to`: The email addresses to send the message to, separated by commas.
  If a list is provided, will join the items, separated by commas.
* `email_to_cc`: Additional email addresses to send the message to as cc,
  separated by commas. If a list is provided, will join the items,
  separated by commas.
* `email_to_bcc`: Additional email addresses to send the message to as bcc,
  separated by commas. If a list is provided, will join the items,
  separated by commas.
* `attachments`: Names of files that should be sent as attachment.
* `inline_images`: A dictionary where keys are content IDs (cids) and values
  are file paths to images to embed in the HTML body.

**Returns:**

* The MIME Multipart message of the email.


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