I am just starting out in Python and I am trying to accomplish a manual task I have heard is on the simpler side to accomplish with python. My company uses Office 365 for their emails and I want to retrieve an email attachment and store it locally so I can save time . So far have established how to send a simple email, call the names of the folders in my account but I cannot figure out how to read any specific email .
my idea goes a little like this ,
from O365 import Account, message,mailbox
credentials = ('username', 'given password')
account = Account(credentials)
mailbox = account.mailbox()
mail_folder = mailbox.inbox_folder()
mail_folder = mailbox.get_folder(folder_name='Inbox')
print(mail_folder)
#_init__(*,parent= Inbox, con=None,**kwargs)
Message_body = message.body()
message.get_subject('email subject here!')
print(Message.body)
right now I am lost and trying anything within the O365 documentation page but the message module does not have the attribute subject according to how I am using it . Any guidance would be much appreciated
From your example - it's not clear if you are authenticated or not...
If you are then you will be able to list the mailbox folders. In the case below - you can access the inbox and then list the sub-folders:
from O365 import Account, Connection, MSGraphProtocol, Message, MailBox, oauth_authentication_flow
scopes=['basic', 'message_all']
credentials=(<secret>, <another secret>)
account = Account(credentials = credentials)
if not account.is_authenticated: # will check if there is a token and has not expired
account.authenticate(scopes=scopes)
account.connection.refresh_token()mailbox = account.mailbox()
inbox = mailbox.get_folder(folder_name='Inbox')
child_folders = inbox.get_folders(25)
for folder in child_folders:
print(folder.name, folder.parent_id)
This part will allow you to list folders (and also messages).
If I look at your code - it looks as though you are trying to do both?
Try doing something like the following to get the hang of paging through your inbox:
for message in inbox.get_messages(5):
if message.subject == 'test':
print(message.body)
Note that I'm looping through the first 5 messages in the inbox looking for a message with subject 'test'. If it finds the message - then it prints the body.
Hopefully this will shed a little light.
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How do I successfully use a sender account with a password that is not already signed in to on the Outlook application on my laptop? I want to send a message from the example account, "from#outlook.com" but it has a password. I have this password. Am I able to enter this into the existing code?
import win32com.client as client
import datetime,time
outlook=client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
message=outlook.Createitem(0)
namespace=outlook.GetNameSpace('MAPI')
inbox=namespace.GetDefaultFolder(6)
message=inbox.items.add
message.To="to#outlook.com"
message.CC=""
message.BCC=""
From = "from#outlook.com"
#password = ""
message.Subject="Subject text here"
message.BodyFormat = 2
message.HTMLBody = "<html><h2><span style='color:red'>There is an error with the file </b></span></h2> <body>Please check your submission and try again </body></html>"
message.Save()
message.Display()
time.sleep(5)
message.Send()
Firstly, MailItem object does not expose the From property. It exposes read-only Sender / SenderEmailAddress / SenderName properties, but they obviously cannot be set. You can set the MailItem.Account property to an instance of the Account object retrieved from the Application.Session.Accounts collection, but that requires you to configure the relevant account in Outlook first.
As a general rule, Outlook wont' let you send from an arbitrary one-off account not previously configured in Outlook.
Hi there,
Everything is working fine, except one thing I can't send email to clients that have non-standard email (if their email are #gmail, #outlook, etc, it sends the email normally)
I have a client with the following email client#company.com (not the real email obviously), I can't send that email to him. There goes my method. I'd love some help.
mail.Send()
File "", line 2, in Send pywintypes.com_error:
(-2147024809, 'The parameter is incorrect.', None, None)
def main_send_email(self, to, header, attached_msg, pdf_files=None):
import pythoncom
# return super().main_send_email(to, header, attached_msg, pdf_files)
self.outlook_app = client.Dispatch(
'outlook.application', pythoncom.CoInitialize())
s = client.Dispatch("Mapi.Session")
mail = self.outlook_app.CreateItem(0)
# set the account
account = None
for acc in mail.Session.Accounts:
if "39" in acc.DisplayName:
account = acc
mail._oleobj_.Invoke(*(64209, 0, 8, 0, account))
# mail.SendUsingAccount = self.outlook_app.Session.Accounts.Item(1)
# set email sender
# mail.To = 'silsilinhas#gmail.com'
mail.To = to
mail.Subject = header
mail.HTMLBody = attached_msg
if pdf_files is not None:
for pdf in pdf_files:
mail.Attachments.Add(pdf)
mail.Send()
First of all, I've noticed the following line of code which is useless and never used:
s = client.Dispatch("Mapi.Session")
It seems there is no need to create a new MAPI session in the code if you automate Outlook.
Second, the Send method may trigger a security issue when automating Outlook from external applications. It can be a security prompt or just an exception thrown at runtime. There are several ways for suppressing such prompts/issues:
Use a third-party components for suppressing Outlook security warnings. See Security Manager for Microsoft Outlook for more information.
Use a low-level API which doesn't trigger such issues/prompts instead of OOM. Or any other third-party wrappers around that API, for example, Redemption.
Develop a COM add-in which has access to the trusted Application object. And then communicate from a standalone application with an add-in using standard .Net tools (Remoting).
Use group policy objects for setting up machines to not throw such issues.
Install the latest AV software.
Third, you may try to set recipients for the mail item using the Recipients collection which provides the Resolve method which attempts to resolve a Recipient object against the Address Book. Read more about that in the How To: Fill TO,CC and BCC fields in Outlook programmatically article.
In a program i wrote I have found the error "(-2147024809, 'The parameter is incorrect.', None, None)" whenever I try using mail.Send() before calling mail.Display().
Seems fairly consistent but can't explain why!
Hope this helps (sorry if it doesn't!)
...
if pdf_files is not None:
for pdf in pdf_files:
mail.Attachments.Add(pdf)
mail.Display() ##this line here
mail.Send()
I’m using a python package called win32com to directly access and scrape the inboxes from Outlook. As the Outlook application is setup to have multiple email accounts, I’ve had to adapt my code to read messages from multiple email accounts. However, the messages contains calendar invites and I just want email messages to be scraped. Is there a way to filter the messages based on type?
Outlook = client.Dispatch(“Outlook.Application”).GetNameSpace(“MAPI”)
Messages = outlook.Folders(“test#test.com).Folders(“Inbox”)
For msg in messages:
#Do Something
Yes, you need to check if the object is of type OlObjectClass.olMail, which is represented by value 43. You can check all enumerations here.
Outlook = client.Dispatch(“Outlook.Application”).GetNameSpace(“MAPI”)
Messages = outlook.Folders(“test#test.com).Folders(“Inbox”)
for msg in messages:
if msg.Class == 43: # OlObjectClass.olMail
#Do Something
How to create the Service (like, local machine services) for the mail(outlook) tracking using Python. Email Tracking which means that I already add some configurations into the service. (like,I already give one of the subject name of the mail to the service).then it automatically running the service. When the same subject name of the mail comes, after that I want to read all those contents of the mail of same subject name and forward it to the another person. These all service Functionalities are done with the help of Microsoft Graph and python.Help me to How to do it!!!
If you're able to use EWS instead of the Graph API, give exchangelib a try. Something like:
from time import sleep
from exchangelib import Account, Credentials
a = Account(
'john#example.com',
credentials=Credentials('user', 'pass'),
autodiscover=True
)
while True:
for m in a.inbox.filter(subject__contains='My Trigger', is_read=False):
m.forward(
subject='Fwd: My Trigger',
body='Hey, look at this!',
to_recipients=['carl#example.com']
)
m.is_read = True
m.save(update_fields=['is_read'])
sleep(60)
I am researching what it would take to make a web app that would interact with e-mails directly. Like you would send to something#myapp.com and the app would tear it apart and determine who it's from, if they are in the DB, what is the subject line, etc.
I am working with/most familiar with python and flask.
Could anyone get me started in the right direction of how to get an e-mail to interface with my flask app code?
There are several approach you can take:
write some code which uses IMAP or POP to retrieve emails and process them. Either run this from a crontab (or something similar) or add it to your flask app and trigger it in there, either through a crontab that requests a magic URL or setting up a custom timer thread.
configure your MTA to deliver email for something#myapp.com by feeding it to a program you write (for example in Exim you could use a pipe transport) . In that program you can either process it directly, or do something like POSTing it to your flask app.
I've done something along these lines recently, with a simple bookmarking web-app. I have the usual bookmarklet way of bookmarking something to it, but I also wanted to be able to e-mail links to it from apps like Reeder on my iPhone and whatever. You can see what I ended up with on GitHub: subMarks.
I use Google Apps for your Domain for my email, so I created a special address for my app to look at - I really didn't want to try building/configuring my own e-mail server.
the mail_daemon.py file from above is run as a cron job every 5 minutes. It connects to the email server using the poplib Python package, processes the emails that are there and then disconnects (one part I feel compelled to point out is that I check that the emails are from me before they are processed :) )
My Flask app then provides the front end to the bookmarks, displaying them from the database.
I decided not to put the email handling code into the actual flask app, because it can be rather slow and would only run when the page was visited, but you could do this if you wanted.
Here's some barebones code to get things going:
import poplib
from email import parser
from email.header import decode_header
import os
import sys
pop_conn = poplib.POP3_SSL('pop.example.com')
pop_conn.user('my-app#example.com')
pop_conn.pass_('password')
#Get messages from server:
messages = [pop_conn.retr(i) for i in range(1, len(pop_conn.list()[1]) + 1)]
# Concat message pieces:
messages = ["\n".join(mssg[1]) for mssg in messages]
#Parse message into an email object:
messages = [parser.Parser().parsestr(mssg) for mssg in messages]
for message in messages:
# check message is from a safe recipient
if 'me#example.com' in message['from']:
# Get the message body text
if message['Content-Type'][:4] == 'text':
text = message.get_payload() #plain text messages only have one payload
else:
text = message.get_payload()[0].get_payload() #HTML messages have more payloads
# decode the subject (odd symbols cause it to be encoded sometimes)
subject = decode_header(message['subject'])[0]
if subject[1]:
bookmark_title = subject[0].decode(subject[1]).encode('ascii', 'ignore') # icky
else:
bookmark_title = subject[0]
# in my system, you can use google's address+tag#gmail.com feature to specifiy
# where something goes, a useful feature.
project = message['to'].split('#')[0].split('+')
### Do something here with the message ###
pop_conn.quit()