multiple email recipients

[Tim Williams (gmail)]

On 20 Feb 2006 01:01:38 -0800, eight02645999 at yahoo.com <
eight02645999 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> hi
> i currently am using this email function that can send single email
> address
> [SNIP]
> was wondering how to modify the code so as i can send to multiple email
> recipients using "TO"? thanks.
>


You are making the common mistake of thinking that the header sender and
recipients are the same as the SMTP-envelope sender and recipients,   in
reality they do not have to bear any similarity or relationship :)

You need a single list containing all the recipients by email address,  and
strings containing the text representations of the header From, To and Cc
fields.

There is a module called email,  so beware of calling your function the same
name.  Also,  you may find the email module becomes helpful for building
emails as your function/requirements get more complex.

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SENDER = "you at mydom1.com"
RECIPS =  ["joe at mydom2.com","support at mydom3.com","sales at mydom4.com"]
FROM = '  "you at mydom1.com" <you at mydom1.com> '
TO = " Undisclosed recipients "
CC = " Uknown recipients "

def email(HOST,SENDER, RECIPIENTS, FROM,TO,SUBJECT ,BODY,CC=None):
    import smtplib
   import string, sys
   body = string.join((
   "From: %s" % FROM,
   "To: %s" % TO,
   "Subject: %s" % SUBJECT,
   "CC: %s" % CC,
   "",
   BODY), "\r\n")

   server = smtplib.SMTP(HOST)
   failed =  server.sendmail(SENDER, RECIPIENTS,body)
   server.quit()

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HTH :)

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Tim Williams
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