I am using win32com for parsing emails in my outlook, how can I parse the contents of attachment in mail.
outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")
accounts= win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").Session.Accounts
inbox = outlook.Folders(accounts['<Account-Name>'].DeliveryStore.DisplayName)
messages = inbox.Folders['Inbox'].Items
if len(messages) > 0:
for message2 in messages:
title = message2.Subject
if title == '<Title-of-mail>':
attachment = message2.Attachments.Item(1)
print(attachment)
print(message2.Body)
# print(attachment.Body) //Error
I want to get the contents of attachment, not able to find any proper documentation for this. Any help in guiding me to correct direction is highly appreciated.
Firstly, you might want to retrieve the Inbox using
accounts['<Account-Name>'].DeliveryStore.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Secondly, looping through all messages in a folder is a terrible idea - use Items.Find/FindNext or Items.Restrict with a restriction on the Subject property..
Thirdly, Outlook would not let you directly access attachment contents, you would need to save the attachment as a file (Attachment.SaveAsFile), and then read the file contents. If you want to access attachment contents directly, you can use Redemption (I am its author) - it exposes Attachment / RDOAttachment.AsText / AsArray / AsStream properties.
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I need some help, I am currently trying to do some scripting to automatize some tasks. I would like to fetch the received mail and send the body somewhere.
For that I am using win32.com with the outlook API.
But the issue is that if there is image in the body of the mail. I can't fetch it with the initial body. I Thought about using attachment, which is working but in the end, I have images and the body. But in the body I don't have the image position information... So I can only send the images and cannot set them correctly. Which can be difficult to understand if there is a lot of images...
So far the code looks like something like this :
import os
import win32com.client
outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch('outlook.application')
mapi = outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
inbox = mapi.GetDefaultFolder(6)
messages = inbox.Items
message = messages[len(messages) - 1]
body = message.body
attachments = message.attachments
attachment = attachments[0]
file_name = attachment.filename
path = "D:\\Documents\\tmp"
attachment.SaveAsFile(path + os.sep + attachment.FileName)
Do you have any help on this ?
Thanks for your help :)
PS : Do you know where I can find the Python documentation for outlook API, I just find the Rest API one and there is some difference from both. Or if we can get the source code to check directly.
In the message body you may check for <img/> tags. If any of them contains this tag with a file name prefixed with cid: string, for example:
<img src=cid:Filename/>
Then you deal with an embedded image which can be found in attached files.
Also you may check the PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID property on the attached files in the following way:
Const PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001F"
Function IsEmbedded(Att As Attachment) As Boolean
Dim PropAccessor As PropertyAccessor
Set PropAccessor = Att.PropertyAccessor
IsEmbedded = (PropAccessor.GetProperty(PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID) <> "")
End Function
The PropertyAccessor can help you to deal with low-level MAPI properties in Outlook.
I am using Microsoft outlook.In outlook I will be having plenty of mails.My task is to read the outlook mail and store that data in an array or any file.I am able to read body of the mail which consists of both text and images. I am able to read the text in the mail but if there is any images in the mail I can't able to read the images. I am using python. Please say me how to get images and text from that body.
import win32com.client
outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")
inbox = outlook.GetDefaultFolder(6)
messages = inbox.Items
message = messages.GetLast()
body_content = message.body
print(body_content)
The Body property returns a plain text string that represents the message body. Instead, you can use the following ways:
The HTMLBody property - a string representing the HTML body of the specified item.
The Word editor - the Microsoft Word Document Object Model of the message being displayed. The WordEditor property of the Inspector class returns an instance of the Document class from the Word object model which you can use to set up the message body.
You can read more about all these ways in the Chapter 17: Working with Item Bodies article. It is up to you which way is to choose to deal with the message body.
You can find all img elements in the message body. Be aware, embedded images are stored as attachments in the message. To find them you can use the following code (C#):
Outlook.MailtItem mailItem;
foreach (Outlook.Attachment attachment in mailItem.Attachments)
{
bool attachmentIsInline = false;
string fileName = attachment.FileName;
if (mailItem.HTMLBody.Contains(fileName))
{
attachmentIsInline = true;
}
}
Basically, you just need to find whether a message body contains an attached file's name. Take a look at the following threads for more information:
distinguish between inline images and other attachments in outlook message
How to know if attachment is a signature in an Outlook email
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.
I would like to send emails with attachments of 10MB or more in a VPS with low RAM; the usual way to send an email with attachments in Python 3 (that I have found) is this:
from email.message import EmailMessage
# import other needed stuff here omitted for simplicity
attachment = 'some_file.tar'
msg = EmailMessage()
# set from, to, subject here
# set maintype, subtype here
with open(attachment, 'rb') as fd:
msg.add_attachment(fd.read(), # this is the problem, the whole file is loaded
maintype=maintype,
subtype=subtype,
filename=attachment)
# smtp_serv is an instance of smtplib.SMTP
smtp_serv.send_message(msg)
With this approach the whole file is loaded into memory and then the EmailMessage object is sent with smtplib.SMTP.send_message, what I am expecting is a way to give to add_attachment a file descriptor(or an iterable), instead of the file content, that is read in a lazy approach(ex. line by line or by some fixed amount of bytes) while the attachment is sent to the server, something like:
with open('somefile') as fd:
msg.add_attachment(fd, maintype=mt, subtype=st, filename=fn)
smtp_serv.send_message(msg)
Is there a way to do this(sending an attachment without loading the whole file at once) with the standard library (email and smtplib)????
I can't find any clue in the python documentation.
Thanks in advance.
My recommendation is to upload the attachments to an S3 bucket or Google Storage bucket, and then provide a URL in the email for the recipient to download it. Most mail servers will restrict the size of the attachments, so they are very unlikely to get through to most mail clients.
You don't have to use a public bucket, you can obfuscate the attachment names, and add a "presigned" url - that only works for a finite amount of time: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/code-samples/latest/catalog/python-s3-generate_presigned_url.py.html
I use send_raw_email to send emails with HTML content and file attachments. How do I insert an ical/ics invite to the email?
I use icalendar to generate ics content.
This is what I came up with so far, but it shows in Gmail as a file attachment.
if calendar_reminder_date:
cal = Calendar()
cal.add('prodid', '-//My calendar product//mxm.dk//')
cal.add('version', '2.0')
cal.add('calscale', 'GREGORIAN')
cal.add('method', 'REQUEST')
event = Event()
event['dtstart'] = calendar_reminder_date.strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ")
event['dtstamp'] = calendar_reminder_date.strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ")
event['summary'] = 'Python meeting about calendaring'
cal.add_component(event)
attachment_part = MIMEText(cal.to_ical())
print repr(cal.to_ical())
del attachment_part['Content-Type']
attachment_part.add_header('Content-Type', 'text/calendar', name='invite.ics')
attachment_part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename='invite.ics')
msg.attach(attachment_part)
Hard to tell without seeing the actual full MIME message as received on the Google side but there are definitely several things missing here:
a calendar REQUEST must have an ORGANIZER property, as well as at least one ATTENDEE property with a value corresponding to the email address of the gmail user (prefixed with a mailto:).
your content-type is missing a METHOD=REQUEST parameter and you probably do not want to set any content-disposition.
See also Multipart email with text and calendar: Outlook doesn't recognize ics