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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 16, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716 "2013-12-16T21:01:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 14\
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**Author:**  [@ryanjmclaughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryanjmclaughlin)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/1 "2013-12-16T21:01:01Z")
How can I send alarm emails in HTML format?
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**Author:**  [@karnick](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/karnick)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/2 "2013-12-16T21:52:22Z")
I would look into system.net.sendEmail(). There is a boolean parameter named ‘html’. You can set it true to enable HTML formatting in your emails. I turn it off when I am sending TXT/MMS alert messages and turn it on when I’m sending regular alarm notifications. Basic HTML seems be parsed just fine by mobile devices, in case that was a concern.
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**Author:**  [@ryanjmclaughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryanjmclaughlin)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/3 "2013-12-16T22:40:47Z")
Ok, that is one option I will look into. I should have been more specific, I am trying to send HTML email with a notification pipeline. Any way to do that?
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**Author:**  [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/4 "2013-12-16T23:39:31Z")
In the alarm email, the message type is hard coded to “text/plain”.
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**Author:**  [@ryanjmclaughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryanjmclaughlin)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/5 "2013-12-16T23:41:13Z")
Thanks Kathy, any future plans to allow for HTML?
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**Author:**  [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/6 "2013-12-17T00:27:11Z")
I don’t see any tickets for it. If enough people request it, I don’t see a reason why it couldn’t be done. (Of course, there may be good reasons it wasn’t done that I’m not aware of… 😃 )
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**Author:**  [@ryanjmclaughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryanjmclaughlin)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/7 "2013-12-17T14:46:42Z")
Ok, consider this my vote for HTML notification support! 
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**Author:**  [@0sm0](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/0sm0)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/8 "2013-12-18T07:40:39Z")
Yep +1
Would love the ability to add images.
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**Author:**  [@Duffanator](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Duffanator)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/9 "2013-12-18T15:50:48Z")
+1!
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**Author:**  [@Manuel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Manuel)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/10 "2014-02-19T12:29:42Z")
+1
It would be useful if there was a way to pass the alarm info (name, status, etc) to a Script module in order to format the email by ourself.
Regards
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**Author:**  [@howarddpsg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/howarddpsg)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/11 "2014-02-21T05:33:00Z")
+1
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**Author:**  [@mitchell-ACS](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mitchell-ACS)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/12 "2015-01-27T21:51:34Z")
+1
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**Author:**  [@Tim](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tim)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/13 "2015-05-29T16:53:20Z")
+1
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**Author:**  [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/html-alarm-email/7716/14 "2015-05-29T17:12:11Z")
Best way to get this to happen is voting for the suggestion at [ideas.inductiveautomation.com](http://ideas.inductiveautomation.com/forums/255378-ignition-features-and-ideas/suggestions/7966908-enable-html-formatting-for-alarm-notifications).