Hi all, I've been developing a Python tool to ingest and write all emails from a PST exported from Outlook to individual .html files. The issue is that when opening the PST in outlook and checking the source information for emails individually, it includes this specific line:
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> which IS NOT being included when importing the PST with Pywin32 and reading all the emails in the PST. To see what it looks like in a chunk - >From Outlook I get:<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"; xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> What is exported from the tool: <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"; xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";><head><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> The contents of the emails are otherwise ENTIRELY identical except for that one tag. My code: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- def find_pst_folder(OutlookObj, pst_filepath): for Store in OutlookObj.Stores: if Store.IsDataFileStore and Store.FilePath == pst_filepath: return Store.GetRootFolder() return None def enumerate_folders(FolderObj): for ChildFolder in FolderObj.Folders: enumerate_folders(ChildFolder) iterate_messages(FolderObj) def iterate_messages(FolderObj): global mycounter2 global encryptedEmails global richPlainEmails global totalEmails global htmlEmails for item in FolderObj.Items: totalEmails += 1 try: try: body_content = item.HTMLbody mysubject = item.Subject writeToFile(body_content, exportPath, mysubject) mycounter2 = mycounter2 + 1 htmlEmails += 1 except AttributeError: #print('Non HTML formatted email, passing') richPlainEmails += 1 pass except Exception as e: encryptedEmails += 1 pass def writeToFile(messageHTML, path, mysubject): global mycounter2 filename = '\htmloutput' + str(mycounter2) + '.html' #Check if email is rich or plain text first (only HTML emails are desired) if '<!-- Converted from text/plain format -->' in messageHTML or '<!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->' in messageHTML: raise AttributeError() else: file = open(path + filename, "x", encoding='utf-8') try: messageHTML = regex.sub('\r\n', '\n', messageHTML) file.write(messageHTML) #Handle any potential unexpected Unicode error except Exception as e: print('Exception: ' , e) try: #Prints email subject to more easily find the offending email print('Subject: ', mysubject) print(mycounter2) file.write(messageHTML) except Exception as e: print('Tried utf decode: ', e) file.close() htmlEmails = 0 encryptedEmails = 0 totalEmails = 0 richPlainEmails = 0 filenameCount = 1 mycounter2 = 1 #Adjusting name of PST location to be readable selectedPST = str(selectedPST.replace('/', '\\')) print('\nRunning:' , selectedPST) outlook.AddStore(selectedPST) PSTFolderObj = find_pst_folder(outlook, selectedPST) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Because the emails otherwise are identical, I can only assume this is being done by the library. I'm wondering if there's a reason that meta tag is excluded, or if it's a bug in PyWin32? Thanks for any input, -Nick
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