How to continuously monitor a new mail in outlook and unread mails of a specific folder in python
So if you restart your python script every time your Outlook restart, then add these lines to your code to check unread emails in your Inbox:
ol = win32com.client.Dispatch( "Outlook.Application")
inbox = ol.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(6)
for message in inbox.Items:
if message.UnRead == True:
print message.Subject #or whatever command you want to do
Put this code before your definition of outlook
in your code
EDIT
For me, the code you posted works great until I close Outlook and then even if I reopen it, I don't get anything when a new message is received (see one of my comments). I guess the fact of closing Outlook "unlink" with pythoncom.PumpMessages()
. Anyway, I come around to do both your checking for unread email in the class Handler_Class
and restart the monitoring in case you restart Outlook.
import win32com.client
import ctypes # for the VM_QUIT to stop PumpMessage()
import pythoncom
import re
import time
import psutil
class Handler_Class(object):
def __init__(self):
# First action to do when using the class in the DispatchWithEvents
inbox = self.Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(6)
messages = inbox.Items
# Check for unread emails when starting the event
for message in messages:
if message.UnRead:
print message.Subject # Or whatever code you wish to execute.
def OnQuit(self):
# To stop PumpMessages() when Outlook Quit
# Note: Not sure it works when disconnecting!!
ctypes.windll.user32.PostQuitMessage(0)
def OnNewMailEx(self, receivedItemsIDs):
# RecrivedItemIDs is a collection of mail IDs separated by a ",".
# You know, sometimes more than 1 mail is received at the same moment.
for ID in receivedItemsIDs.split(","):
mail = self.Session.GetItemFromID(ID)
subject = mail.Subject
print subject
try:
command = re.search(r"%(.*?)%", subject).group(1)
print command # Or whatever code you wish to execute.
except:
pass
# Function to check if outlook is open
def check_outlook_open ():
list_process = []
for pid in psutil.pids():
p = psutil.Process(pid)
# Append to the list of process
list_process.append(p.name())
# If outlook open then return True
if 'OUTLOOK.EXE' in list_process:
return True
else:
return False
# Loop
while True:
try:
outlook_open = check_outlook_open()
except:
outlook_open = False
# If outlook opened then it will start the DispatchWithEvents
if outlook_open == True:
outlook = win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents("Outlook.Application", Handler_Class)
pythoncom.PumpMessages()
# To not check all the time (should increase 10 depending on your needs)
time.sleep(10)
Not sure it is the best way, but it seems to work the way you look for.