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 Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Reading Outlook/Exchange Email Programatically with Python

With Python's Windows Extensions, you can talk via COM to an Exchange Server and read/process your email.  You must have the Outlook Client installed on the box you are running this from.

Here is a sample script that will:

  • connect to your mailbox
  • print the inbox name
  • print the message count
  • print the subjects for all your email messages


#!/usr/bin/env python

from win32com.client import Dispatch

session = Dispatch("MAPI.session")
session.Logon('OUTLOOK')  # MAPI profile name
inbox = session.Inbox

print "Inbox name is:", inbox.Name
print "Number of messages:", inbox.Messages.Count

for i in range(inbox.Messages.Count):
    message = inbox.Messages.Item(i + 1)
    print message.Subject


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