use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:51 AM, jkn <jkn_gg at nicorp.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> I happy to carve some code without using urllib, but I am not clear what I
> actually need to do to 'open' such a URL using this protocol. FWIW I can paste
> this URL into Windows Explorer and I get the referenced email popping up ;-)
>

What happens if you invoke the 'start' command using subprocess?

subprocess.check_call(["start", url])

In theory, that should be equivalent to pasting it into Explorer. In theory.

ChrisA