[python-win32] Using win32com.mapi to automate mail dispatch...

[Mark Hammond]

That EID was almost certainly fetched as a property, but the code isn't 
checking the returned property type before assuming it is a string 
entryid - in your case the type will be PT_ERROR, indicating the value 
holds the error reason as an integer.  As Tim mentioned, that code means 
the requested item wasn't found.

HTH,

Mark

On 27/04/2010 2:05 PM, Varun Avashia wrote:
> Yes Tim, the user has Admin privileges, and eid has a -ve value of -2147221233.....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces+varun.avashia=aryaka.com at python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces+varun.avashia=aryaka.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:22 AM
> To: Python-Win32 List
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Using win32com.mapi to automate mail dispatch...
>
> Varun Avashia wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> I tried to follow the code on this link
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2004-August/002239.html
>>
>>
>>
>> This worked fine for me on win7 with Outlook2k7 (CDO were installed
>> separately), However this failed to work on winxp with sp2 and
>> outlook2k7 (with CDO installed) with following trace-back….
>>
>>
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>
>>    File "C:\Documents and
>> Settings\Administrator\Desktop\send1kMail.py", line 73,
>>
>>   in<module>
>>
>>      SendEMAPIMail(SendSubject, SendMessage, SendTo,
>> MAPIProfile=MAPIProfile)
>>
>>    File "C:\Documents and
>> Settings\Administrator\Desktop\send1kMail.py", line 28,
>>
>>   in SendEMAPIMail
>>
>>      outboxfolder = msgstore.OpenEntry(eid,None,mapi.MAPI_BEST_ACCESS)
>>
>> TypeError: EntryID must be a string or None
>>
>>
>>
>> Am I missing any additional components for WinXP?
>>
>>
>>
>> The eid variable at line 27 has a value of -2147221233…
>>
>
> For what it's worth, that's 0x8004010F, which is MAPI_E_NOT_FOUND.
>
> You might want to print out the "eid" that you fetched in the line
> immediately preceding.  Perhaps something went wrong with fetching the
> outbox ID.  Has Outlook 2007 actually been configured for Administrator
> on this machine?
>