Python and MS Exchange

Paul Boddie paul at boddie.net
Fri Feb 13 04:03:55 EST 2004


Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote in message news:<c0gt44$o7j$1 at arachne.labyrinth.net.au>...
> 
> Check out the SpamBayes project, and look at the source code to the 
> Outlook Addin - in general, this uses MAPI (which is basically the 
> 'exchange object model'), but also does a few things via the Outlook 
> object model - so you get a few examples of both.  MAPI has a bigger 
> learning curve, but is more powerful and faster.

And Outlook Explorer might also be useful as a starting point:

  http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/COM.html

There's just archiving going on in that program, but it could be more
productive to look at its source code than it is to swim in the MSDN
documentation.

Paul



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