sending mailing list with smtplib

[Steve Holden]

3KWA wrote:
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> 
>>Specify "didn't work" at least... see
>>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> 
> 
> Ooops, didn't work explained (the worst is I bought and read ESR's book
> :()
> 
> list.txt=
> email1
> email2
> email3
> ....
> emailn
> 
> email1 received from:xsbar.com to:email1 subject: [xsbar] alive and
> kicking ... message
> 
> from email2 onwards it seems what happened is that the recipient list
> kept growing,
> email 2 received from:eugene at xsbar.com to:email1 to:email2 subject: ...
> email3 received from:eugene at xsbar.com to:email1 to:email2 to:email3
> subject:...
> ....
> emailn received from:eugene at xsbar.com to:email1 to:email2 to:email3 ...
> to:emailn subject:...
> 
> Many didn't receive the email because the header grew too big (I
> received 1257 failure notice ~50% of them for header too big or
> inappropriate recipient list).
> 
> Apologize for the inaccuracy of my first post
> 
OK, now the problem is that you clearly aren't running the code you 
posted, you are running *somethinglike* the code you posted, but that 
has (an) error(s) the code you posted didn't.

So let's see the version with the "print" statements in it, not the 
sanitised version you didn't copy-and-paste fro your python source :-)

For the record, it's clear that youa ren't resetting the senders to an 
empty list each time but growing it as you go round the loop. If this 
helps you find your error, at least confirm that you did indeed find the 
problem.

regards
  Steve
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