Fun with Outlook and MAPI

[Steve Holden]

Chris wrote:

>>> Alas, I dont think that there is much you can do to prevent the 
>>> confirmation dialogs with Outlook's MAPI dll. MS added them in a 
>>> service pack as an anti-virus measure, so no work-around. Not all 
>>> clients show these anoying dialogs though. Thunderbird definately 
>>> doesn't.
>>
>> There is actually a workaround. You're using Simple MAPI which has a 
>> nice easy interface. The confirmation dialogs are only for Simple 
>> MAPI. Using Extended MAPI can work around the problem but its a lot 
>> more tricky.
>> See the initial discussion here: 
>> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/Python-win32/2160646
>>
>> This code has now been included in pywin32 somehow but I can't 
>> remember where and its late. Should also be a cookbook entry. Maybe 
>> Google can help :-)
> 
> 
> Cool.  I'll take a look an' see if I can get it to work.  MAPI has 
> turned out to be a major PITA.  Especially when trying to learn it and 
> Python at the same time. :)
> 
> Chris

There's recently been some discussion of this topic on the python-win32 
list, most lately to accommodate moving sent messages to the Sent 
folder. I've personally sent several hundred messages using the 
techniques outlined there.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2004-August/002239.html is 
a good starting point.

regards
  Steve
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