# Elastic Rule and connectors - Send html mail using email connector

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-rule-and-connectors-send-html-mail-using-email-connector/310365>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [July 22, 2022, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-rule-and-connectors-send-html-mail-using-email-connector/310365 "2022-07-22T06:37:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![benedictDTony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@benedictDTony](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/benedictDTony)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-rule-and-connectors-send-html-mail-using-email-connector/310365/1 "2022-07-22T06:37:43Z")

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Hi Team,

Can someone guide me on how to send an html mail through the Elastic-Cloud-SMTP connector for elastic rules.  
If we put the html content in the message of the rule actions it is delivering it as plain text.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/7/678635802d358d8d3730a35e9e9527b783c41d6a.png)

Kindly help. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-rule-and-connectors-send-html-mail-using-email-connector/310365/2 "2022-07-23T16:49:53Z")

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Hello,  
Currently the email is sent as HTML, but it gets converted via markdown-it, see this issue here: [Allow colors in Kibana alerting emails. · Issue #94678 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/94678)  
So you would have to use markdown to achieve something similar to HTML sadly.

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**Author:** ![benedictDTony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@benedictDTony](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/benedictDTony)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-rule-and-connectors-send-html-mail-using-email-connector/310365/4 "2022-07-25T03:57:01Z")

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Thank you for responding on this 🙂  
I was able to find examples for markdown-it in this below link.

> **[GitHub - markdown-it/markdown-it: Markdown parser, done right. 100%...](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it#init-with-presets-and-options)**
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> Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed - GitHub - markdown-it/markdown-it: Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extension...

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-rule-and-connectors-send-html-mail-using-email-connector/310365/5 "2022-08-22T03:57:24Z")

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