Beliavsky wrote in news:d579f554-be4b-4066-acec-49a7bafb1046 @t41g2000hsc.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python:
> I work for a financial company where we run Windows XP and read email > using Microsoft Outlook 2003. I get daily files that come as email > attachments from various counterparties. I save them as h:\firm_name > \yyyymmdd.csv . Would Python be a good tool to automate the process of > saving reports, or would it be more convenient to use a Microsoft > proprietary language such as VB or C#? Of course one factor is one's > relative competence with the various languages. > Assuming your Outlook is using Exchange (or at least a IMAP server), you can use imaplib in the standard library. This example should list the messages and attachments in you InBox fot today. EXCHANGE = '' #<-- YOUR EXCHANGE SERVER HERE EXCHANGE_PORT = 143 # default USER = '' #<-- YOUR USERNAME PWD ='' #<-- YOUR PASSWORD import imaplib, email from datetime import date today = date.today().strftime( '"%d-%b-%Y"' ) imap = imaplib.IMAP4( EXCHANGE, EXCHANGE_PORT ) imap.login( USER, PWD ) imap.select( 'InBox' ) typ, data = imap.search( None, 'SINCE', today ) for num in data[0].split(): typ, data = imap.fetch(num, '(RFC822)') msg = email.message_from_string(data[0][1]) print ( "%s, %s\n" % ( num, msg['subject'] ) ) for part in msg.walk(): if part.get_filename() is not None: print ( " %s\n" % part.get_filename() ) imap.close() imap.logout() Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list