[python-win32] Troubleshooting with moving Outlook emails to subfolders

[Mark Hammond]

On 19/08/2021 4:37 am, Giraud Ludovic (AMUNDI) wrote:
> Hello Mark,
> 
> I am stuck on this issue: https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/issues/1743
> 
> I am trying to move outlook emails into subfolders and this works well most of the time.
> 
> However in some cases, probably when a copy of the email I am trying to move already exists into the subfolder, I get the error below using:
> x.Move(self.folder.Folders("Inbox").Folders("VALORISATIONS").Folders("Allianz"))
> 
> Is there a way to specify that you want to eventually crush the existing email in the folder?

I'm afraid it's been over 10 years since I used Outlook's COM model. 
Hopefully someone else here will comment, but 2 observations:

* Search and delete for the mail firstt to see if the problem goes away? 
That will at least validate your hypothesis.

* Don't restrict your googling to Python - this issue will exist in all 
languages which use Outlook via COM and the subsequent solution will be 
identical.

Good luck,

Mark