I'd suggest using Exchange Web Services instead of MAPI - in my experience, I've found MAPI to be very tricky to use*, and small errors from an independent program using MAPI can cause painful problems (such as Outlook no longer working!). I've used EWS from IronPython/Sho before and found it to be quite a smooth experience. You'll have to use wsdl.exe to generate the stub library from your exchange server, then once you do, you can follow the many EWS C# examples on the web and easily translate them to IronPython.
-Sumit *Disclaimer - I'm not a COM expert, so if I knew what I was doing, perhaps I wouldn't have run into those problems :) -----Original Message----- From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Daniel D. Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 5:51 PM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: Re: [IronPython] Stubbing out a MAPI DLL You could also wrap COM objects (Redemption is a COM object) into cPython through it's Windows api. I wrapped other COMs into cPy on windows before, just never Redemption. Yet, this way you may end up making it work with cPython. -- Daniel. On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 17:45, Daniel D. <dvdotse...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are very few good MAPI libraries. The only one that worked more > or less reliably for me is this Redemption > (http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/). Because it's so difficult to > find a MAPI lib for your language, it's easier to wrap Redemption into > into a .Net app and wrap IronPython scripting into that on the other > side. > > Trial version of Redemption prepends "UNREGISTERED" to subject lines > on email objects it creates and nags you every time you start Outlook > / MAPI client. Yet, it's a good place to start if it will work for > you. > > Daniel. > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 13:59, Mike Driscoll <mdrisc...@co.marshall.ia.us> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I received a request recently to create a Python application that can >> be set as a default email client so that we can use the "Send To Mail >> Recipient" >> functionality found in MS Office, Adobe products, etc to send the >> mail to our Zimbra web client. >> >> After much research, I think I need to stub out some kind of MAPI >> implementation and make it into a DLL. Does anyone have any knowledge >> of how to do that? I thought I might be able to use IronPython for >> this since I couldn't find a good way to do it with normal Python. Thanks a >> lot! >> >> - Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@lists.ironpython.com >> http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com >> > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
