Outlook using python win32com to iterate subfolders

python outlook win32com
nico picture nico · Nov 28, 2016 · Viewed 22.9k times · Source

I have the following code which gets me the inbox of my shared folder, and all of the emails inside. This code works great and will print the subject of the last email. 

outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")
recip = outlook.CreateRecipient("[email protected]")
inbox = outlook.GetSharedDefaultFolder(recip, 6)
messages = inbox.Items
message = messages.GetLast()
print (message.Subject)

I can access other parent folders in [email protected]'s mailbox (like Sent), but I can't get any subfolders of a folder within the inbox, or deeper than that. So if I want inbox\subfolder1, how do I access that? Using Outlook 2013 if that matters. My main goal is to do:

message.Move(inbox\subfolder1)

Answer

Sir Tesla picture Sir Tesla · Jun 7, 2017

Yeah its better to write it as the name of the folder instead of writing the folder numbers

Like my folder hierarchy is : Outlook_Mails > Inbox > Important

outlook = win32.com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
mapi = outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")

your_folder = mapi.Folders['Outlook_Mails'].Folders['Inbox'].Folders['Important']
for message in your_folder.Items:
    print(message.Subject)

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