[python-win32] PySBinaryArray??

Mark Hammond skippy.hammond at gmail.com
Wed Jun 5 06:26:39 CEST 2013


It's just a list/sequence of strings (in py2k) or bytes (in py3k).  In 
this context, IIRC, it's just the entryids of the messages to move...

HTH,

Mark

On 5/06/2013 2:16 PM, Aubin LaBrosse wrote:
> Hello, List,
>
> I’m new to pywin32 and have been able to use it quite sufficiently with
> the help of the internet and some (rather rudimentary, I admit)
> knowledge of the windows api.  I’ve been able to do some quite clever
> things with HTML on the windows clipboard and the Extended MAPI support.
>   However I am stumped on one thing, which I would have imagined would
> be rather easy to do somehow but just can’t seem to figure it out.  I
> have used Extended MAPI to open the outlook outbox, create, and send an
> email message.  Now I want to move that message from the outbox to the
> sent items folder, as outlook itself would do. Without doing so, it
> simply sits in the outbox, or is sent and deleted if I set the
> PR_DELETE_AFTER_SUBMIT (apologies if that’s not the exact name, doing
> this from memory as I write this email quickly) property flag
>
>   So anyway, there exists PyIMAPIFolder.MoveMessages – I have a python
> reference to a PYIMessage object that I would like to move, but the
> first parameter to MoveMessages is what appears to be called a
> PySBinaryArray which, all the documentation I can find on it essentially
> says is a ‘list of strings containing binary data’
>
> What binary data, exactly? The body of the message?  Some other message
> identifier or property tag which must be used to indicate which message
> is to be moved? Something else entirely?  And even if I knew, how the
> heck do I create the proper PySBinaryArray object with which to pass in?!
>
> This API is so obtuse sometimes (I get that that’s microsoft’s fault,
> not python’s – LOL )
>
> Any help/pointers/tips would be MOST appreciated – and thanks in advance
> for the time!
>
> Please CC directly on all replies, as I am not subscribed to the list.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Aubin
>
>
>
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