Parsing outlook .msg files with python

python email outlook
Michael picture Michael · Oct 12, 2014 · Viewed 63.7k times · Source

Looked around and couldn't find a satisfactory answer. Does anyone know how to parse .msg files from outlook with Python?

I've tried using mimetools and email.parser with no luck. Help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer

Brent Edwards picture Brent Edwards · May 25, 2015

This works for me:

import win32com.client
outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")
msg = outlook.OpenSharedItem(r"C:\test_msg.msg")

print msg.SenderName
print msg.SenderEmailAddress
print msg.SentOn
print msg.To
print msg.CC
print msg.BCC
print msg.Subject
print msg.Body

count_attachments = msg.Attachments.Count
if count_attachments > 0:
    for item in range(count_attachments):
        print msg.Attachments.Item(item + 1).Filename

del outlook, msg

Please refer to the following post regarding methods to access email addresses and not just the names (ex. "John Doe") from the To, CC and BCC properties - enter link description here

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