sending emails to a list of recipients [update]

[Kun]

Kun wrote:
> i have the following code:
> 
> ----------------------------------
> import smtplib
> 
> from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
> fp = open('confirmation.txt', 'rb')
> msg = MIMEText(fp.read())
> 
>  From = 'xxxx at xxxx.xxxx.edu'
> 
> msg['Subject'] = 'Purchase Confirmation'
> msg ['From'] = From
> msg['To'] = emails
> 
> s = smtplib.SMTP('xxxx.xxx.xxx.edu')
> s.login('xxxxx','xxxx')
> s.sendmail(msg['From'], msg['To'], msg.as_string())
> s.close()
> ----------------------------------
> 
> it works if msg['To'] = 'email at email.com'
> 
> however, i'm trying to attach a list of emails named 'emails' to msg['To']
> 
> emails is in the following format: ['nxxx at gmail.com', 'nxxx at gmail.com', 
> 'xxx at xxx.xxxx.edu']
> 
> 
> anyone have an idea how i can modify this script to work with sending a 
> list? note this is a snippet of a larger code, 'emails' is as a string 
> defined earlier.

this is my error msg of leaving the code in its current state... (brave 
yourself)

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/Tutorial/IMAP/scannermailer.py", line 41, in -toplevel-
     s.sendmail(msg['From'], msg['To'], msg.as_string())
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/email/Message.py", 
line 129, in as_string
     g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/email/Generator.py", 
line 82, in flatten
     self._write(msg)
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/email/Generator.py", 
line 120, in _write
     self._write_headers(msg)
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/email/Generator.py", 
line 166, in _write_headers
     header_name=h, continuation_ws='\t').encode()
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/email/Header.py", 
line 395, in encode
     return self._encode_chunks(newchunks, maxlinelen)
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/email/Header.py", 
line 355, in _encode_chunks
     _max_append(chunks, s, maxlinelen, extra)
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/email/quopriMIME.py", 
line 79, in _max_append
     L.append(s.lstrip())
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'lstrip'