Outlook-MAPI

[erinhouston at gmail.com]

This code should help.

code
import win32com.client
olMailItem = 0x0
obj = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
newMail = obj.CreateItem(olMailItem)
newMail.Subject = "This works"
newMail.Body = "It worked aging\n"
newMail.display()


V.C.Sekhar wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>             Can any one please help in getting me Python-Outlook
> programming issue clarified.
>
>
>
> I just wanted to do the following using Python:
>
> 1)Open a New Oulook Mail Window
>
> 2) Fill the field: to-email address and Write some body to it.(I
> DON't want to send it automatically)
>
>
>
> That's all. But, I am getting an error when I try to initiate the
> MAPI-Session using
>
>     object = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
>
>     ns = object.GetNamespace("MAPI")
>
>     mapi = win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch("MAPI.session")
>
>
>
> Error I see is :
>
>   File "C:\Program Files\GNU\WinCvs 2.0\Macros\TemplateCvsMacro.py",
> line 140, in SendMAPIMail
>
>     mapi = win32com.client.Dispatch("MAPI.session")
>
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> line 95, in Dispatch
>
>     dispatch, userName = dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
> (dispatch,userName,clsctx)
>
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py",
> line 91, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
>
>     return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
>
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py",
> line 79, in _GetGoodDispatch
>
>     IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
> pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
>
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None,
> None)
>
>
>
> Can any one please help me in this regard.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sekhar