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using smtplib server accepting email with space

I am using server.mail() function to check if the mail relay is available or not. I am getting a response from the server as not expected.

send: 'mail FROM:<bhanukrsingh@outlook.com> b h a n u k r s i n g h @ o u t l o o k . c o m\r\n'
reply: b'501 5.5.4 Invalid arguments [CO1NAM05FT018.eop-nam05.prod.protection.outlook.com]\r\n'

why am I getting my email ID like this? It should be like this send: 'mail FROM:<bhanukrsingh@outlook.com> bhanukrsingh@outlook.com\r\n'

I used print(repr(email)) to check if I am reading the file incorrectly, but that's also not the case!

Where am I doing wrong?

This is the link to my full code : https://github.com/Rwarlock/mxrecordchecker/blob/master/mxrecord.py

Solution

  • I found the fix.

    Basically I used was using this part of code in order to send mail

    server.mail('bhanukrsingh@outlook.com',email)

    But now I am using this :

    server.mail('example@outlook.com')
server.rcpt(email)

    And this is giving me the server response as I needed:

    send: 'mail FROM:<example@outlook.com>\r\n'
send: 'rcpt TO:<example@outlook.com>\r\n'