smtplib.SMTPDataError: (503, 'Error: need RCPT command')

[Emile van Sebille]

Yes. thanks for the pointer.

I thought rfc821 would give a good perspective on the OPs question of what
RCPT means, and to quote from http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html , even
though it obsoletes 821, it seems that :
   This document is a self-contained specification of the basic protocol
   for the Internet electronic mail transport.  It consolidates, updates
   and clarifies, but doesn't add new or change existing functionality
   of the following:

   -  the original SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) specification of
      RFC 821 [30],


Which begs the question: Does anyone know where there might be a source that
shows the current status or otherwise forward points on older rfc's to the
rfc's that obsolete them?

Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry A. Warsaw" <barry at zope.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: smtplib.SMTPDataError: (503, 'Error: need RCPT command')


>
> >>>>> "EvS" == Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> writes:
>
>     EvS> Start with http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc821.txt
>
> Better make that RFC 2821!  And note that RFC 2822 is also the latest
> revision of that seminal standard.
>
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html
>
> -Barry