MAPI Server...

[ross lazarus]

Google is often a wonderful friend of first recourse in these 
situations. The first result for
python mapi
is
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/149461
which just might give you a start.

Mike Monaghan wrote:

> I have inherited a glueware application that I'd like to convert to
> Python.  To avoid a long discussion here's how the application
> works...
> 
> A voice mail system uses MAPI to pass a message to Outlook Express. 
> Since Outlook Express has protection to prevent worms another program
> hits the "It's okay to allow this" button.  Outlook then passes the
> message to a SMTP server that puts the raw message in a file where
> another program can pickup and parse the message into something
> usable.
> 
> There's a lot of parts to this and to put it mildly I'm not really
> happy with the way this is all put together.  I can't change the MAPI
> call from the voicemail system.  The rest is open to debate.
> 
> The voicemail system treats Outlook as a MAPI server.  Is there any
> support in Python to emulate this role?  I'd rather not reinvent the
> wheel.  By emulating the Outlook Express' MAPI server I could take
> Outlook, The button presser, the SMTP server, and a major part of the
> last program out of the chain and provide a simple Python application
> to do the job.  The logic in this isn't complex so python seems like a
> natural if I can emulate the MAPI Server in Python.  Any references to
> libs or source code would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike