smtp module - specifying multiple email recipients?

[Alex Hunsley]

I'm using the smtp module to send emails from python.
I would like to specify several recipients of the email like follows:

msg = MIMEText(time.ctime("Body text of email")

me = 'm*@sending.address'
you = 'r*********@some.where,re********@some.where'
msg['Subject'] = '*** Carwatch alert'
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you

# Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the
# envelope header.
# s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.ednet.co.uk')
s = smtplib.SMTP('192.168.1.105')
# s.connect()
s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())

... when I execute this code, only re********@some.where gets the email.
Is there a way to specifiy multiple addresses in the To field?

thanks
alex

[Richie Hindle]

[Alex]

I would like to specify several recipients of the email like follows:

you = 'r*********@some.where,re********@some.where'
...
msg['To'] = you
...
s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())

.. when I execute this code, only re********@some.where gets the email.

sendmail() takes a list of recipients, not a list with a single
comma-separated string in it. You need to do this:

you = ['r*********@some.where', 're********@some.where']
...
msg['To'] = ', '.join(you)
...
s.sendmail(me, you, msg.as_string())

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Richie Hindle
ri****@entrian.com

[Paul Wright]

In article <10*************@corp.supernews.com>, Alex Hunsley wrote:

I'm using the smtp module to send emails from python. me = 'm*@sending.address'
you = 'r*********@some.where,re********@some.where' s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())

.. when I execute this code, only re********@some.where gets the email.
Is there a way to specifiy multiple addresses in the To field?

The second argument to sendmail is a list, not a comma separated string.
Currently, you've specified a single address containing a comma. Your
MTA has charitably decided to deliver it to the first address, although
I expect other MTAs would just reject it. If you've got comma separated
addresses in a string, make a list using s.split(",").

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