Re: How to add CC and BCC while sending mails using python

[Bernhard Walle]

Hi,

* cindy jones [2008-09-30 19:57]:
>
> Can someone tel me how to add cc's and bcc's while sending mails using
> python

Following (tested) snippet should help:

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from smtplib import SMTP
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

to = 'to_ad...@example.invalid'
cc = 'cc_ad...@example.invalid'
bcc = 'bcc_a...@example.invalid'

msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['To'] = to
msg['Cc'] = cc
msg['From'] = 'bern...@bwalle.de'
msg['Subject'] = 'Test'
text = MIMEText('Das ist ein Test')
text.add_header("Content-Disposition", "inline")
msg.attach(text)

s = SMTP('test.smtp.relay')
s.sendmail(msg['From'], [to, cc, bcc], msg.as_string())
s.quit()
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Regards,
Bernhard

[ake...@gmail.com]

Hello Bernhard,

I've tried the above code and the bcc address does not receive the message, on the To & CC addresses receive it.

Here are snippets from my code, perhaps something will stand out to you?

to = 'e...@domain.gov'
cc = 'e...@gmailmail.com'
bcc = 'e...@home.net'

msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['To'] = to
msg['Cc'] = cc

msg['Subject'] = 'My Subject text here'
msg['From'] = 'eds...@domain.gov'

smtp = SMTP("smtpserver")
smtp.ehlo()
smtp.sendmail(msg['From'], [to, cc, bcc], msg.as_string())

Thanks in advance..hope you're still out there!!
~Ed

[sonam Kumari]

I tried this but my mail gets sent only in to but not in cc. Can anyone help?

[Roel Schroeven]

sonam Kumari via Python-list schreef op 20/06/2023 om 9:49:

> >
> > I've tried the above code and the bcc address does not receive the message, on the To & CC addresses receive it.
> >
> > Here are snippets from my code, perhaps something will stand out to you?
> >
> > to = 'e...@domain.gov'
> > cc = 'e...@gmailmail.com'
> > bcc = 'e...@home.net'
> > msg = MIMEMultipart()
> > msg['To'] = to
> > msg['Cc'] = cc
> > msg['Subject'] = 'My Subject text here'
> > msg['From'] = 'eds...@domain.gov'
> >
> > smtp = SMTP("smtpserver")
> > smtp.ehlo()
> > smtp.sendmail(msg['From'], [to, cc, bcc], msg.as_string())
> >
> > Thanks in advance..hope you're still out there!!
> > ~Ed
>
>
> I tried this but my mail gets sent only in to but not in cc. Can anyone help?

That looks like it should work. In fact I typed in your code, with some
email addresses of mine and another smtp server, and it does work.
That's to say, I can see in the logs of my smtp server that three mails
are sent out, and I see the mails arriving at the to-address and the
cc-address. The bcc-addres doesn't seem to receive the mail reliably:
sometimes not at all, sometimes in the spam folder. It looks like mail
systems don't like bcc very much. As far as I can see the code is
correct, and there is a good chance the problem is caused by a mail
server not accepting one or more of the messages for some reason.

I added some content to the mail, and that seemed to work better.

So, some suggestions:

- Do you have access to the smtp server to check its logs and see what
is sent, what is not sent, and any possible error messages?
- Try adding some content to the email, something which looks nothing
like spam.

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