win32com Python: Connecting to one of multiple mailboxes

Question

I have 2 mailboxes ([email protected] and [email protected]) in outlook and need to connect to a specific mailbox. By default, Python's win32com.client is connecting to the wrong one.

Is there a parameter to specify which mailbox to connect to? My code is:

outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI") inbox = outlook.GetDefaultFolder(6) messages = inbox.Items

I have tried very hard to find which parameters allow me to connect to a specific mailbox but did not see anything. Thanks for your help.

Can you see what for folder in outlook.Folders: print(folder.Name) gives you? — mechanical_meat
– mechanical_meat, Commented Apr 26, 2017 at 21:43
Thanks! It works. For some reason I was assuming that "folders" would be for folders like Inbox, Sent, etc and that there would be something like outlook.Mailbox for mailboxes. Did not know that they are all considered folders. — kashmoney
– kashmoney, Commented Apr 28, 2017 at 1:52

mechanical_meat · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-28 04:19:27Z

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You should be able to enumerate the mailboxes with:

for folder in outlook.Folders: 
    print(folder.Name)

answered Apr 28, 2017 at 4:19

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