Reading Outlook .msg file using Python

[John Henry]

On Oct 19, 2:46 pm, 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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>
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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.
>
> > TJG
>
> Looks like this flag is valid only if you are getting messages
> directly from Outlook.  When reading the msg file, the flag is
> invalid.
>
> Same issue when accessing attachments.  In addition, the MAPITable
> method does not seem to work at all when trying to get attachments out
> of the msg file (works when dealing with message in an Outlook
> mailbox).  Eitherway, the display_name doesn't work when trying to
> display the filename of the attachment.
>
> I was able to get the date by using the PR_TRANSPORT_MESSAGE_HEADERS
> mapitags

This flag means the mapi.MAPI_UNICODE flag.