On May 7, 2:00 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 7, 10:28 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Get the pywin32 package (Python for Windows extensions) from sourceforge, > > install it, and look into the win32comext\mapi\demos directory. > > Thanks for the hint, Gabriel. > Wow, that's heavily spiced code! When I invoke mapisend.py I get: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "mapisend1.py", line 85, in <module> > SendEMAPIMail(SendSubject, SendMessage, SendTo, > MAPIProfile=MAPIProfile) > File "mapisend1.py", line 23, in SendEMAPIMail > mapi.MAPIInitialize(None) > pywintypes.com_error: (-2147467259, 'Unspecified error', None, None) > > But what is a MAPI profile?
It's an abstraction of incoming and outgoing mail accounts. In UNIX terms it's kind of like running local sendmail that forwards mail to another server and fetchmail that fetches mail from external inboxes, e.g. it's a proxy between you and outgoing/incoming mail server. > I left this variable blank. Do I need MS > Exchange Server to run this demo? No, but you need an account on some mail server and some email program should create a MAPI profile to represent that account on your local computer. As I understand creation of MAPI profiles is not a common practice among non-Microsoft products, for example my computer with Lotus Notes doesn't have any MAPI profiles. -- Leo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
