[Tutor] Mailing Made Simple - Multiple Recipient Problem

[Sean Steeg]

OK then, just to make sure I grasp what's going on here then:

Where is the SMTP server getting its recipient information from?  That is to 
say, which is parsed to send the letter out to someone?  smtplib's send 
function calls for recipients in its argument, outside of any headers in the 
letter itself; I would think it'd be there where the recipients are found.

Let's say I want to switch this around to get multiple recipients.  I know I 
can adjust the headers easily enough, so that the multiples are CCs instead 
of TOs, but what should I do with that first argument for the smtplib.send() 
function?

Thanks,
Sean

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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 23:51:21 +0100
From: sigurd at 12move.de (Karl Pfl?sterer )
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Mailing Made Simple - Multiple Recipient Problem
To: tutor at python.org
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On  5 Jan 2004, Steegness <- steegness at hotmail.com wrote:

>It doesn't seem to send to multiple recipients well. When passed the info 
>for
>its TO field, only the first recipient listed recieves an e-mail; all 
>others
>are seemingly ignored.

This is a feature. Use Cc: for multiple recipients or BCc: (see RfC
2822). In the smtp dialog each recipient in To: or Cc should produce a
RCPT TO: command.  Coping with BCc is a bit tricky (there are different
srtategies; cf also RfC 2822).


   Karl

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