MATLAB: How to create html formatted text as a message part of send mail function

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I know that send mail function allows us to send mails (i am using gmail) from matlab .My objective is to feed html formatted text in the message part.i am using the below syntax

sendmail(recipient, subject, message);

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Unfortunately, SENDMAIL does not support HTML format. It is written in the documentation. (You can send HTML files as an attachement.)

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/sendmail.html?lang=en

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I was able to do it by changing the Body property (instead of HTMLBody):

mail.Body = sprintf('This is line one.\nThis is line two.');

Here's a quick example of a demo that produces an email sent from a gmail account (specifically). Note that to send an email through your gmail account you have to turn off the app security which greatly reduces the security of your gmail account. One solution to this problem is creating a new gmail account for the sole purpose of sending emails from this script.

To turn off app security, sign into gmail and access this link: https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

[Update] See comments below regarding common problems with antivirus software and firewalls that might prevent the email from being sent.

% User input
source = 'myFakeEmail@gmail.com';              %from address (gmail)
destination = 'kofte@foobar.com';              %to address (any mail service)
myEmailPassword = 'sifre123';                  %the password to the 'from' account
subj = 'This is the subject line of the email';  % subject line
msg = 'This is the main body of the email.';     % main body of email.
%set up SMTP service for Gmail
setpref('Internet','E_mail',source);
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','smtp.gmail.com');
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Username',source);
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Password',myEmailPassword);
% Gmail server.
props = java.lang.System.getProperties;
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.auth','true');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.class', 'javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.port','465');
% Send the email
sendmail(destination,subj,msg);
% [Optional] Remove the preferences (for privacy reasons)
setpref('Internet','E_mail','');
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','''');
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Username','');
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Password','');

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