I am currently using Python 2.7 and trying to send a raw email with an attachment (CSV to be exact) to multiple addresses with Boto SES. I can send a normal email with send_email(), but I keep getting an error when trying to send to multiple people via send_raw_email().
This is the error that I get with a comma-separated string of recipients:
Error sending email: SESIllegalAddressError: 400 Illegal address
<ErrorResponse xmlns="http://ses.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-12-01/">
<Error>
<Type>Sender</Type>
<Code>InvalidParameterValue</Code>
<Message>Illegal address</Message>
</Error>
<RequestId>[the request ID]</RequestId>
</ErrorResponse>
That's from using this code:
to_emails = "me@example.com, them@example.com"
# create raw email
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = 'Email subject'
msg['From'] = 'me@example.com'
msg['To'] = to_emails
part = MIMEText('Attached is an important CSV')
msg.attach(part)
part = MIMEApplication(open(fname, 'rb').read())
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=fname)
msg.attach(part)
# end create raw email
conn = boto.ses.connect_to_region(
'[my region]',
aws_access_key_id=s3_access_key,
aws_secret_access_key=s3_secret_key
)
conn.send_raw_email(msg.as_string(),
source=msg['From'],
destinations=msg['To']
)
Also, here is the error I get from using an array of strings for recipients:
Error sending email: 'list' object has no attribute 'lstrip'
It works fine if I have just one recipient, so it just throws the error when I have an array of recipients and a comma-separated string of recipients. Anyone have any experience with this?
I ended it getting it after looking at some docs and some more trial & error. It turns out that I just had to join the array of email strings for the msg['To'], and then I was able to pass in the email array for destinations parameter.
Here's what I did:
to_emails = "me@example.com, them@example.com"
COMMASPACE = ', '
# create raw email
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = 'Email subject'
msg['From'] = 'me@example.com'
msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(to_emails) ## joined the array of email strings
# edit: didn't end up using this ^
part = MIMEText('Attached is an important CSV')
msg.attach(part)
part = MIMEApplication(open(fname, 'rb').read())
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=fname)
msg.attach(part)
# end create raw email
conn = boto.ses.connect_to_region(
'[my region]',
aws_access_key_id=s3_access_key,
aws_secret_access_key=s3_secret_key
)
conn.send_raw_email(msg.as_string(),
source=msg['From'],
destinations=to_emails ## passed in an array
)
I believe instead of a comma separated string with your recipients you have have to use a a list of strings.
Recipients = ['1@email.com', '2@email.com']
conn.send_raw_email(msg.as_string(),
source=msg['From'],
destinations= Recipients)
So something along those lines.
Source: http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ref/ses.html?highlight=send_raw_email#boto.ses.connection.SESConnection.send_raw_email
The official documentation says a list of strings or simply a string. This is why it works with only one recipient.
Second attempt::
to_emails = ['me@example.com', 'them@example.com']
# create raw email
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = 'Email subject'
msg['From'] = 'me@example.com'
msg['To'] = to_emails
conn.send_raw_email(msg.as_string(),
source=msg['From'],
destinations=msg['To'])
Am I right in assuming your code now looks like this? If not, try this.
The solution is set a string separated by comma to the header and a list to destinations field.
Something like:
to_emails = ['me@example.com', 'them@example.com']
msg['To'] = ', '.join( to_emails )
and
...
conn.send_raw_email(msg.as_string(),
source=msg['From'],
destinations=to_emails ## passed in an array
)
When sending without attachment just assigning list works. But in other case the below code helped..Thanks @Ezequiel Salas
to_emails = ['me@example.com', 'them@example.com']
or
to_emails = some_list
msg['To'] = ', '.join( to_emails )
