I'm having some trouble sending a message to multiple addresses using the Gmail API. I've successfully sent a message to only one address, but get the following error when I include multiple comma-separated addresses in the 'To'
field:
An error occurred: <HttpError 400 when requesting
https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send?alt=json returned "Invalid to header">
I'm using the CreateMessage
and SendMessage
methods from this Gmail API guide:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/sending
That guide states that the Gmail API requires messages that are RFC-2822 compliant. I again didn't have much luck using some of these addressing examples in the RFC-2822 guide: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822#appendix-A
I'm under the impression that 'mary@x.test, jdoe@example.org, one@y.test' should be a valid string to pass into the 'to' parameter of CreateMessage
, but the error that I received from SendMessage
leads me to believe otherwise.
Please let me know if you can recreate this problem, or if you have any advice on where I may be making a mistake. Thank you!
Edit: Here is the actual code that yields an error...
def CreateMessage(sender, to, subject, message_text):
message = MIMEText(message_text)
message['to'] = to
message['from'] = sender
message['subject'] = subject
return {'raw': base64.urlsafe_b64encode(message.as_string())}
def SendMessage(service, user_id, message):
try:
message = (service.users().messages().send(userId=user_id, body=message)
.execute())
print 'Message Id: %s' % message['id']
return message
except errors.HttpError, error:
print 'An error occurred: %s' % error
def ComposeEmail():
# build gmail_service object using oauth credentials...
to_addr = 'Mary Smith <mary@x.test>, jdoe@example.org, Who? <60one@y.test>'
from_addr = 'me@address.com'
message = CreateMessage(from_addr,to_addr,'subject text','message body')
message = SendMessage(gmail_service,'me',message)
Getting "Invalid to header" when sending with multiple recipients (comma delimited) in a single header was a regression that was fixed on 2014-08-25.