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Python: Create an Email with Outlook
# https://itsec.media/post/python-send-outlook-email/
import win32com.client
from win32com.client import Dispatch, constants
const=win32com.client.constants
olMailItem = 0x0
obj = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
newMail = obj.CreateItem(olMailItem)
newMail.Subject = "I AM SUBJECT!!"
# newMail.Body = "I AM\nTHE BODY MESSAGE!"
newMail.BodyFormat = 2 # olFormatHTML https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa219371(v=office.11).aspx
newMail.HTMLBody = "<HTML><BODY>Enter the <span style='color:red'>message</span> text here.</BODY></HTML>"
newMail.To = "[email protected]"
attachment1 = r"C:\Temp\example.pdf"
newMail.Attachments.Add(Source=attachment1)
newMail.display()
newMail.Send()
@UnderJollyRoger
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I copied your script verbatim then I get an error. But the email still sends anyway.
line 20, in <module> newMail.send() TypeError: 'bool' object is not callable

@voidsteed
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I copied your script verbatim then I get an error. But the email still sends anyway.
line 20, in <module> newMail.send() TypeError: 'bool' object is not callable

I figured it out. Use newMail.Send() instead of newMail.send()

@mohanramselvaraj
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Thanks.. it works for me,
How to import existing mail signature into the new mail

@ragaveenaitsolutions
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I want to create a email and save it in draft.. How to do it ? Any help would be highly appreciated and Thank you in Advance!

@Stehos
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Stehos commented Mar 4, 2020

Hi Norman, first I want to thank you for publishing this snippet. Please do you know, if there is any change to select a sender account from outlook? I have 5 inboxes in my outlook and the email is sent from the 3rd account.

Thanks.

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@Stehos, I would expect that you define the default sender account in your Email client, try to look there for a solution.

@ayjagadish
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Hello,
Please help/guide me to achieve below goal. Any help is truly appreciated and I remember for my life time 😊.

What I want to do?

  1. I have outlook template file (.oft).
  2. I have Some values in excel.
  3. Insert values of excel into outlook template using python.

Thanks in advance

@debbyca
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debbyca commented Sep 29, 2020

I want to create a email and save it in draft.. How to do it ? Any help would be highly appreciated and Thank you in Advance!

You can use newMail.Save().

@mmelitba
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mmelitba commented Aug 4, 2021

Hi,
Thanks for this post! It´s really usefull.
Do you know the propertie or the command to change the "from" mailbox?

Thanks in advance!

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ITSecMedia commented Aug 4, 2021

Hi,
Thanks for this post! It´s really usefull.
Do you know the propertie or the command to change the "from" mailbox?

Thanks in advance!

@mmelitba

Try it with the Sender properties, check the link below

newMail.Sender = "...."
newMail.SenderEmailAddress= "...."
newMail.SenderName = "...."

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/outlook.mailitem

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ELRame commented Apr 1, 2022

Hi, thanks for the post!
Do you know if it's any chance to bring the mail signature of my mail?

Thank you again!

@Sasaa22222
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Sasaa22222 commented Aug 5, 2022

@ITSecMedia

Hello, i want to ask how i can set a random sender and how i can set random Timestamp?
With the Faker module like this:

newMail.Sender= fake_data.email()
newMail.Timestamp=fake_data.iso8601()

It doesnt work yet. Has someone an idea?

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lhmjst commented Dec 11, 2023

@ITSecMedia

Hello, just tried Email.Sender & Email.SenderEmailAddress & Email.SenderName, also tried Email.SendUsingAccount , but none of them works.
Any idea? Thanks.

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