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Stupid.Fat.Cat
Stupid.Fat.Cat

Reputation: 11345

Accessing shared outlook inbox in python

I have a shared inbox in outlook and I want to write some code that would get me the emails from the shared inbox. Right now I can get the emails from my main inbox, but I want to do it for another inbox.

This is the code so far:

import os
import win32com.client

outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch('Outlook.Application').GetNamespace('MAPI')
inbox = outlook.GetDefaultFolder(6).Folders('Some Magic Folder')
messages = inbox.Items

My guess is that I shouldn't be looking at the GetDefaultFolder method but something else, but I'm not quite sure where to look at.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3968

Answers (1)

Eugene Astafiev
Eugene Astafiev

Reputation: 49453

The GetSharedDefaultFolder method of the Namespace class returns a Folder object that represents the specified default folder for the specified user.

Sub ResolveName() 
  Dim myNamespace As Outlook.NameSpace 
  Dim myRecipient As Outlook.Recipient 
  Dim CalendarFolder As Outlook.Folder 
  Set myNamespace = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI") 
  Set myRecipient = myNamespace.CreateRecipient("Eugene Astafiev") 
  myRecipient.Resolve 
  If myRecipient.Resolved Then 
    Call ShowCalendar(myNamespace, myRecipient) 
  End If 
End Sub 

Sub ShowCalendar(myNamespace, myRecipient) 
  Dim CalendarFolder As Outlook.Folder 
  Set CalendarFolder = _ 
  myNamespace.GetSharedDefaultFolder _ 
  (myRecipient, olFolderCalendar) 
  CalendarFolder.Display 
End Sub

Upvotes: 1

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