Microsoft Outlook manipulation with win32com (Python)

Welcome to your journey into discovering the magical world of your emails. 😄 If you're here I assume you're interested in email analytics and automations.

🚧 I revisited this project after 2 years and a lot has changed. The new Outlook is a web application utilizing Microsoft Graph which makes the old code base (seen below) obsolete and useless. I'm working on releasing 2 courses here focusing on both versions. I'm planning to add Jupyter Notebook examples where I'll explain more what's going on in the code. 🚧

This will always be the first thing to do when interacting with your Outlook on your computer:

import win32com.client
outlook = win32.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")

You can decide which path to take to continue. 1.) The standard path where you choose the default folder.

root_folder = outlook.GetDefaultFolder(6)

OR the custom path where you decide and deliberately choose which email address to use. 2.)

root_folder = outlook.Folders(1).Items
messages = root_folder.Folders.Item(1) # this should be the incoming messages folder

You can also you the exact name of the folder. For example: 3.)

root_folder = outlook.Folders('Inbox').Items

Let's take number 2.) because it gives us more control over our script/program.

#TODO:

Looping through folders:

for folder in root_folder.Folders:
  print(folder.Name)

FIND MORE DETAILED INFO IN THE WIKI: https://github.com/hornlaszlomark/python_outlook/wiki

... to be continued ... #TODO:

• accessing parts of messages (Sender.Name, SenderEmailAddress, Body, etc.)
• loop through messages
• loop thorugh messages based on certain conditions
• loop through messages and download attachments
• loop through messsages and download certain attachments
• writing and sending email (inserting pictures and attachments)

All of the above is coming soon!