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Pranav
Pranav

Reputation: 33

Check whether the email is a reply or response with Python win32com

I am using Python win32com to parse email from outlook . I am able to fetch email from the outlook folder , but I not able to verify whether the email is a reply or response or a forwarded message , I need to check whether the email reiceved is the reply of the previous mail (if yes then find the original mail) or email is the forwarded message. I am using following code to fetch emails from outlook.

import win32com.client 

outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")
inbox=outlook.Folders['[email protected]'].Folders['Inbox'].Folders['abc']
messagesReach = inbox.Items
for message in messagesReach:
    if message.Unread==True:
       print(message.body)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4077

Answers (2)

Pranav
Pranav

Reputation: 33

Hi the header is ConversationID and can be used as message.ConversationID refer https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.outlook.mailitem_properties.aspx

Upvotes: 1

Markus Schwer
Markus Schwer

Reputation: 66

You could try to read the first three characters of the subject, and determine if it has the "Re:"-prefix and therefore is a reply. This should be the case most times.

import win32com.client 

outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")
inbox = outlook.Folders["[email protected]"].Folders["Inbox"].Folders["abc"]
messagesReach = inbox.Items
for message in messagesReach:
    if message.Unread == True:
       if message.Subject[:3] == "Re:":
          print(message.body)

Upvotes: 0

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