Python MAPI

[vasudevram]

On Jul 21, 12:28 am, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Jul 20, 1:48 pm, vasudevram <vasudev... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 20, 10:57 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > > Hi,
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> > > I've been googling all over and can't find any good answers about this
> > > problem. I would like to create some kind of MAPI interface with
> > > Python such that when I open Microsoft Word (or another Office
> > > program) and click File, Send To, Mail Recipient it opens a program I
> > > wrote in Python and uses it to send the email rather than Outlook.
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> > > The closest I've come is finding the registry key HKLM\Software\Clients
> > > \Mail which seems to control the default email client. I did figure
> > > out how to redirect mailto directives on websites to my program
> > > successfully, but this is a whole 'nother ballgame.
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> > > Any suggestions are welcome. I am considering writing some VBA hooks
> > > in Office Apps in question, but would prefer to avoid that.
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> > > Thanks!
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> > > Mike
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> > > P.S. Currently using Python 2.4, wxPython 2.8.3 (for GUI) on Windows
> > > XP Pro.
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> > Hi,
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> > 1: I don't know much about Windows APIs, but am currently reading the
> > "Windows Internals" book. Got this idea from it:
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> > Go tohttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx
> > and check out the SysInternals utilities there. The book says that you
> > can use some of them to "spy" on what an app is doing - what registry
> > keys it is reading/writing, lots of other OS-level calls it makes as
> > it runs. Digging around and using some of these utilities to check out
> > what an Office app does when you use it to send mail, might help you
> > figure out a way to do what you want.
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> > 2. Try looking for registry entries specific to Office Apps, and look
> > under those subtrees for likely email-related entries to modify (if
> > you haven't tried that already). I guess you already know that
> > fiddling with the registry can be risky and can crash your system, so
> > take backups, etc.
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> > Using COM via Python may also help - again, some digging required. You
> > probably already have the PyWin32 Python extensions for Windows COM
> > (earlier called win32all - seehttp://wiki.python.org/moin/Win32All) -
> > if not, its available here:
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> >http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.4/
> > (scroll down the page for the link)
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> > Vasudev Ramwww.dancingbison.com
> > jugad.livejournal.com
> > sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf
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> Thanks for the ideas...I am already monitoring the registry to see
> what happens when I switch between two email clients. In this case, I
> am switching between Outlook 2003 and Thunderbird 2. The pertinent
> registry files are as follows:
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> # changes which email client to use
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail]
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> # obviously changes the .eml file association
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.eml]
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> # haven't the fogiest idea what this does, if anything
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{29F458BE-8866-11D5-
> A3DD-00B0D0F3BAA7}]
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> # change mailto functionality
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\DefaultIcon]
> @="C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe,0"
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\shell\open\command]
> @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe\" -osint -
> compose \"%1\""
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> I assume you're referring to "Process Monitor", which is a really cool
> tool. Maybe it'll help, but I usually can't get it to filter out
> enough of the noise to make the output useful. I'll give it a go
> nonethless.
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> I am running all my tests in a VM, so I really don't care if the
> registry gets hosed at this point.
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> Thanks again,
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> Mike- Hide quoted text -
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You're welcome :)

If Process Monitor has an option to save its output as text files /
CSV files (some of the other SysInternals tools do), you might want to
try using (a Windows version) of grep or awk to filter out the
noise ..

Vasudev