Parsing outlook .msg files with python

Question

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 1

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