Reading Outlook .msg file using Python

[John Henry]

On Oct 17, 11:37 am, John Henry <john106he... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 17, 4:45 am, Tim Golden <t... at westpark-club.org.uk> wrote:
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> > On 17/10/2010 6:39 AM, John Henry wrote:
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> > > On Oct 12, 10:31 am, Tim Golden<m... at timgolden.me.uk>  wrote:
> > >> On 12/10/2010 4:59 PM, John Henry wrote:
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> > >>> According to:
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> > >>>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813745
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> > >>> I need to reset my Outlook registry keys.  Unfortunately, I don't have
> > >>> my Office Install CD with me.  This would have to wait.
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> > >> Thanks for the information; I'm keen to see if you're able
> > >> to use the solution I posted once this fix is in place.
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> > >> TJG
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> > > Okay, after fixing the Outlook reg entries as described above, I am
> > > able to go further.  Now, the code stops at:
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> > > message = mapi.OpenIMsgOnIStg (mapi_session, None, storage, None, 0,
> > > mapi.MAPI_UNICODE)
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> > > with an error message:
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> > > pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221242, 'OLE error 0x80040106', None,
> > > None)
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> > Strange. That's UNKNOWN_FLAGS. Try the call without the MAPI_UNICODE,
> > ie make the last param zero. Maybe there's something with Outlook 2002...
> > I've never tried it myself.
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> > TJG
>
> Okay, omitting the MAPI_UNICODE works!
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> Now, I have to search and see how I get the header info, and extract
> the attachment.

Not knowing anything about MAPI, I tried a number of the MAPI flags,
the only one that works appears to be PR_SUBJECT.
PR_CLIENT_SUBMIT_TIME, PR_CREATION_TIME and so forth doesn't work.