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pythonoutlookpywin32win32com
user2582770
user2582770

Reputation: 411

Outlook Check Message Type

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(“[email protected]).Folders(“Inbox”)

For msg in messages: 
    #Do Something

Upvotes: 0

Views: 656

Answers (1)

drec4s
drec4s

Reputation: 8077

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(“[email protected]).Folders(“Inbox”)

for msg in messages: 
    if msg.Class == 43: # OlObjectClass.olMail
        #Do Something

Upvotes: 1

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