[python-win32] parsing outlook email

[Tim Golden]

Ahmed, Shakir wrote:
> Hi, 
> I am working on a project where I need to parse incoming emails 
> (Microsoft outlook 2003) with a specific subject into an excel file or a
> 
> Microsoft access table.
> 
> Any help is highly appreciated.

You could create an Outlook Add-in. Have a look at the Spambayes
codebase for ideas. [1]

Or you could try using the Outlook event model externally. But it
kept crashing when I tried it (and I admit I didn't try too hard).

Or you could just have a long-running process which
monitors incoming emails and does things with them.
Which is what I do. Depends on what exactly you're
trying to achieve and how slick it has to be.

TJG

[1] http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/windows.html