After much searching I couldn"t find out how to use smtplib.sendmail to send to multiple recipients. The problem was every time the mail would be sent the mail headers would appear to contain multiple addresses, but in fact only the first recipient would receive the email.
The problem seems to be that the email.Message
module expects something different than the smtplib.sendmail()
function.
In short, to send to multiple recipients you should set the header to be a string of comma delimited email addresses. The sendmail()
parameter to_addrs
however should be a list of email addresses.
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
import smtplib
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg["Subject"] = "Example"
msg["From"] = "[email protected]"
msg["To"] = "[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]"
msg["Cc"] = "[email protected],[email protected]"
body = MIMEText("example email body")
msg.attach(body)
smtp = smtplib.SMTP("mailhost.example.com", 25)
smtp.sendmail(msg["From"], msg["To"].split(";") + msg["Cc"].split(";"), msg.as_string())
smtp.quit()
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Answer #1
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Here is another example where something is run approximately once a minute:
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Answer #2
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