Hello All, I'm a beginner trying to achieve the below in my python script: Can anyone help me on this? I'm stuck at step2.
1. Input: A locally saved outlook mail (*.msg) path 2. Go to the path and Copy the entire body of the mail 3. Create a new mail and paste the contents into new mail 4. send it manually # ======================================================== # ======================= Script Start ====================== # ======================================================== import win32com.client as win32 ########### Functions def getMailBody(msgFile): start_text = "<html>" end_text = "</html>" with open(msgFile) as f: data=f.read() return data[data.find(start_text):data.find(end_text)+len(end_text)] def releaseMail(body, subject, recipient): outlook = win32.Dispatch('outlook.application') mail = outlook.CreateItem(0) mail.To = recipient mail.Subject = subject mail.HtmlBody = body mail.Display(True) ############### Main ################ msgFile = "C:\\RELM\\testMsg.msg" mailTo = "mym...@myserver.com" mailSubject = "Test message" mailBody = getMailBody(msgFile) releaseMail(mailBody, mailSubject, mailRecipient) # ======================================================== # ======================== Script End ======================= # ======================================================== Below is the error I'm getting. ============================================== File "C:\Python\Python38-32\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 924: character maps to <undefined> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list