After reading about and using the smtplib module, I thought code such as below would ignore the 'Cc: ' body line below when sending messages and instead simply use the RECEIVERS list
session = smtplib.SMTP(SMTPserver,port) session.set_debuglevel(1) session.ehlo(SMTPuser) # say hello session.starttls() # TLS needed session.ehlo(SMTPuser) # say hello again session.login(SMTPuser, pw) FROM=SENDER RECEIVERS= (TO,CC) BODY= MakeBody(FROM,TO,CC,SUBJECT,MESSAGE) SMTPresult = session.sendmail(SENDER, RECEIVERS, BODY) Here the MakeBody() creates text like below From: FROM To: TO Cc: CC Subject: SUBJECT MESSAGE But when using smtp.gmail.com as the server I learned that any @gmail.com address in the Cc: text block would receive mail even if I changed the code to have the RECEIVERS list to ignore the CC addresses or not include the gmail address in the CC list as below RECEIVERS= (TO,) BODY= MakeBody(FROM,TO,CC,subject,message) SMTPresult = session.sendmail(SENDER, RECEIVERS, BODY) Other @zzz.com CC addresses need to be in the RECEIVERS list however. Also the gmail server changes the 'From: ' text to be the same as SENDER even if this is modified (a case not using FROM=SENDER. I found other servers send mail that displays the BODY specified From: address. Is this gmail specific or a quirk of the smtplib functions? I understand how Google might not want to send mail with FROM not = SENDER, but the CC behavior baffles me. And does anyone have a general routine that lets one also have Bcc: addresses usign SMTP? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
