Multi Recipients With smtplib?

[John Abel]

Sorry for the confusing question, but you got the gist of it (Phew!). 
 I'm pulling the list of addresses out of .ini file, e.g.

mailfrom=me at mydomain.org
mailto=you at yourdomain.org,me at myotherdomain.org

Basically, what I was doing, was passing the mailto value to 
.sendmail().  The header seem correct (viewed via Mozilla, with headers 
set to all), which is what was confusing me.

Thanks for the pointers!

Regards

John

Steve Holden wrote:

>"John Abel" <john.abel at pa.press.net> wrote in message
>news:mailman.1038231874.18339.python-list at python.org...
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I am trying to send a mail, to multiple recipients, without much
>>success.  A single mail address works fine, but when I add another,
>>using a comma to separate the addresses, the second address fails to
>>receive the mail.  Any ideas?  Here's the code I am using:
>>
>>        mailMessage = "From: %s \r\nTo: %s\r\n" % (self.mailFrom,
>>self.mailTo)
>>        mailMessage += "Subject: %s\r\n%s" % (mailSubject, mailBody)
>>        try:
>>            self.MailConn.sendmail( self.mailFrom, self.mailTo,
>>    
>>
>mailMessage)
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>>        except (smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused,
>>smtplib.SMTPSenderRefused), ErrorMsg:
>>            print "There Was A Problem Sending The Mail.  Reason: %s" %
>>ErrorMsg
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated, as this is driving me mad!
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Given that yout code is arranged to print an error message it's a pity you
>didn't give us the benefit of its output so we knew a little more about the
>erre that's occurring.
>
>The arguments to the .sendmail() method should be:
>
>    a string containing the sender's address
>    a list of strings containing an address for each recipient, and
>    an RFC822-formatted mail message
>
>I am guessing that when you say "but when I add another, using a comma to
>separate the addresses, the second address fails to receive the mail" you
>are setting the self.mailTo attribute to be a comma-separated list ot
>recipients? Frankly I'm not sure how you are managing to get this mail
>formatted.
>
>What you really want for multiple recipients is something like the
>following:
>
>
>    self.mailFrom = me at mydomain.com
>    self.mailTo = ["him at hisdomain.com", "her at herdomain.com",
>"it at itsdomain.net"]
>    ...
>    mailMessage = "From: %s \r\nTo: %s\r\n" \
>                % (self.mailFrom, ", ".join(self.mailTo))
>    mailMessage += "Subject: %s\r\n%s" % (mailSubject, mailBody)
>        try:
>            self.MailConn.sendmail( self.mailFrom, self.mailTo, mailMessage)
>        except (smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused,
>                smtplib.SMTPSenderRefused), ErrorMsg:
>            print "There Was A Problem Sending The Mail.  Reason: %s" \
>                    % ErrorMsg
>
>In other words, use a comma-separated list of recipients in the message
>body, but a list of email addresses as the second argument to .sendmail().
>
>regards
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