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kayk
kayk

Reputation: 198

Python automated Outlook email: change sender or default reply-to address

I'm using code similar to Steve Townsend's answer from this question: Send Outlook Email Via Python? to send an email by running a python script. How can I edit the default reply-to address, so that when someone replies to the automated email it will get sent to a specific address? Alternatively, can I modify the address that the email is sent from? I tried to modify the Msg.SentOnBehalfOfName property but had no success with that. Note that the address is an alias so I can't log into the account in Outlook.

import win32com.client

def send_mail_via_com(text, subject, recipient, profilename="Outlook2003"):
    s = win32com.client.Dispatch("Mapi.Session")
    o = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
    s.Logon(profilename)

    Msg = o.CreateItem(0)
    Msg.To = recipient

    Msg.CC = "moreaddresses here"
    Msg.BCC = "address"

    Msg.Subject = subject
    Msg.Body = text

    attachment1 = "Path to attachment no. 1"
    attachment2 = "Path to attachment no. 2"
    Msg.Attachments.Add(attachment1)
    Msg.Attachments.Add(attachment2)

    Msg.Send()

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6762

Answers (1)

Strive Sun
Strive Sun

Reputation: 6289

You can try the following code to choose sender address and recipient address freely.

import win32com.client as win32

def send_mail():
    outlook_app = win32.Dispatch('Outlook.Application')

    # choose sender account
    send_account = None
    for account in outlook_app.Session.Accounts:
        if account.DisplayName == '[email protected]':
            send_account = account
            break

    mail_item = outlook_app.CreateItem(0)   # 0: olMailItem

    # mail_item.SendUsingAccount = send_account not working
    # the following statement performs the function instead
    mail_item._oleobj_.Invoke(*(64209, 0, 8, 0, send_account))

    mail_item.Recipients.Add('[email protected]')
    mail_item.Subject = 'Test sending using particular account'
    mail_item.BodyFormat = 2   # 2: Html format
    mail_item.HTMLBody = '''
        <H2>Hello, This is a test mail.</H2>
        Hello Guys. 
        '''

    mail_item.Send()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    send_mail()

If you are interesting, you can refer this case.

Upvotes: 3

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