On Oct 11, 8:54 am, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > On 11/10/2010 4:39 PM, John Henry wrote: > > > I am trying your code but when it get to the line: > > >> mapi.MAPIInitialize ((mapi.MAPI_INIT_VERSION, 0)) > > > I got the error message: > > > Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client > > cannot fulfill the messsage requrest. Please run Microsoft > > Outlook ... client. > > > I have Outlook (not Express - Outlook 2002) running and I did set it > > to be the default mail client. Does MAPI works with Exchange only? > > No. I was running it with Outlook 2003 installed (not running, > in fact, although it is the default mail client on that machine). > > > (And why do I need MAPI to read the file?) > > Basically because the MAPI subsystem already contains all > the code to interpret that particular format of structured > storage. If you can find some source of info which tells > you how to parse the format directly, then you can sidestep > MAPI. Presumably this is what is done by the Java code you > mentioned. > > I'm afraid I'm not at work at the moment, and I don't run > Outlook on this machine. (So I can't even save an .msg file > to test). FWIW the code did run successfully on my work > machine and produced the plain text of the email, so it > is just a configuration sort of issue. If no-one chips > in with a suggestion in a few hours, might be worth > posting to python-win32; there might be people there who > don't watch this (higher-traffic) list. > > I have a vague memory that when I set this kind of thing > up to run on our Helpdesk server where I use this to > ingest incoming emails I did have to install a sort > of server-only alternative to Outlook. I'll try to remote > into the server later to see if I can spot it. But that > still wouldn't explain what the problem was if you were > actually running Outlook in any case. > > TJG
According to: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813745 I need to reset my Outlook registry keys. Unfortunately, I don't have my Office Install CD with me. This would have to wait. Thanks, -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list