using python smtp,only one receipent is getting mail

Question

i am new to python,and below is the code which is suppose to send mail to multiple receipent but only dipeshyog94@gmail.com is getting a mail. milanthapa898@gmail.com which is second on To and alexlee94@gmail.com which is on cc is no getting the mail

from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email import encoders
import smtplib

owner_emp_id_email = "dipeshyogi94@gmail.com,milanthapa989@gmail.com"
mymail='milanthapa898@gmail.com'
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = mymail
msg['To'] = owner_emp_id_email
cc_mail = "alexlee94@gmail.com"
msg['Cc'] = cc_mail
print('####44444444444444########\n')
print(owner_emp_id_email)
msg['Subject'] = 'Automated Test Mail with python'
a = 'Milan Thapa'
#body = 'Dear '+spoc_name+',\n\nYou have created new job with below Details:\n\nProject ID : '+project_ID+'\n\nProject Name : '+ibu_name+'\n\nJob Description : ' +job_description +'\n\nThanks and Regards,\n\nMilan Thapa'
html = """\
            <html>
                <head></head>
                    <body>
                        <p>'Dear <b>{}<b>

                        </p>
                    </body>
            </html>
            """.format(a)
msg.attach(MIMEText(html,'html'))
text = msg.as_string()
try:
    server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')

except:
    server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
server.ehlo()
server.login(mymail,'password')
server.sendmail(mymail,owner_emp_id_email,text)
server.quit()

i am stuck in this couldn't send the mail to multiple users.

any help will be greatly appreciated!

thanks in advance

If those are real email addresses, exposing them like this is almost guaranteed to increase your spam load. Maybe [edit] your question to replace them with placeholders like `mail1@example.com` — tripleee, Mar 08 '19 at 06:11

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '19 at 06:02

The information in the headers doesn't control where the message actually goes. The second argument to sendmail is the only place where this is controlled. This value should be a list, not a comma-separated string.

owner_emp_id_email = "dipeshyogi94@gmail.com,milanthapa989@gmail.com"
env_rcpts = owner_emp_id_email.split(",")
# ...
cc_mail = "alexlee94@gmail.com"
env_rcpts.append(cc_mail)
# ...
server.sendmail(mymail,env_rcpts,text)

You'll notice that you could also add addresses which are neither in To: or Cc: (or a number of other headers which serve the same purpose) to effectively implement Bcc:

Maybe also look at send_message which saves you from having to separately convert your message to a string you can pass to sendmail.

Maybe see also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54412188/header-to-for-a-bulk-email-sender/54414203#54414203 which attempts to explain this in some more detail. — tripleee, Oct 07 '19 at 05:39

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 08 '19 at 05:51

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msg['To'] = owner_emp_id_email

Here owner_emp_id_email is a string. Make it a list of email ids. Then it would work.

to_ids = owner_emp_id_email.split(',')
msg['To'] = to_ids

answered Mar 08 '19 at 05:51

eiram_mahera

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This still doesn't handle adding the Cc: recipient to the recipient list. – tripleee Mar 08 '19 at 05:58
Ya exactly ,CC recipient will not receive mail even after this – Milan Mangar Mar 08 '19 at 06:28

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 08 '19 at 06:08

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>>> help(smtplib)

to_addrs: A list of addresses to send this mail to. A bare string will be treated as a list with 1 address.

You need to convert your CSV string to a list like mentioned in the the other answer.

With this answer I just wanted to demonstrate how can we use the python's amazing help function when stuck.

answered Mar 08 '19 at 06:08

Shariq

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`help(smptlib)` brings up a copy of [the entire module documentation](https://docs.python.org/3/library/smtplib.html#smtplib.SMTP.sendmail). Maybe not a stellar example. Maybe also show how to google? (Sorry, couldn't resist.) – tripleee Mar 08 '19 at 06:12
sorry I forgot to mention you will have to press Enter a few times and use your visual sensors as well as natural and subconscious task of finding similar text from a seemingly very cute documentation. Oh and for the bonus you also get to learn 4 different things, if interested. – Shariq Mar 08 '19 at 06:25

using python smtp,only one receipent is getting mail

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