Paul Moore wrote:
Sorry, this is only peripherally a Python issue, as the code I'm
writing could just as easily be VBScript or any other language... But
as I'm writing in Python, and this group is full of helpful and
knowledgeable people... :-)
I have a folder full of emails saved from Outlook (.msg extension). I
want to extract from those files, the subject, sent/received date,
author, etc. Getting the properties isn't hard once I have a CDO
message object (or equivalent) to work with, but I've been unable to
find any way of getting a message object when all I'm given is the
filename of a ".msg" file in the filesystem.
Can anybody suggest a way to do this, or point me at sample code?
They're structured storage and a bit opaque. In principle
this (very sketchy and untested) code should get you started:
<code>
import pythoncom
from win32com import storagecon
filename = r"c:\temp\outlook.msg"
print pythoncom.StgIsStorageFile (filename)
flags = storagecon.STGM_READ | storagecon.STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE
storage = pythoncom.StgOpenStorage (filename, None, flags)
for data in storage.EnumElements ():
if data[1] == 2:
print data[0]
stream = storage.OpenStream (data[0], None, flags)
print repr (stream.Read (data[2]))
#
# ... and now you've got an IStream interface which
# you can read etc.
#
</code>
There are some stream names listed here:
http://www.msusenet.com/archive/topic.php/t-288764.html
TJG
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