I&#39;m trying to write a short program that will read in the contents of e-mails within a folder on my exchange/Outlook profile so I can manipulate the data. However I&#39;m having a problem finding much information about python and exchange/Outlook integration. A lot of stuff is either very old/has no docs/not explained. I&#39;ve tried several snippets but seem to be getting the same errors. I&#39;ve tried Tim Golden&#39;s code:

    import win32com.client

    session = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch (&quot;MAPI.Session&quot;)

    #
    # Leave blank to be prompted for a session, or use
    # your own profile name if not &quot;Outlook&quot;. It is also
    # possible to pull the default profile from the registry.
    #
    session.Logon (&quot;Outlook&quot;)
    messages = session.Inbox.Messages

    #
    # Although the inbox_messages collection can be accessed
    # via getitem-style calls (inbox_messages[1] etc.) this
    # is the recommended approach from Microsoft since the
    # Inbox can mutate while you&#39;re iterating.
    #
    message = messages.GetFirst ()
    while message:
        print message.Subject
        message = messages.GetNext ()

However I get an error:

    pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005, &#39;Invalid class string&#39;, None, None)

Not sure what my profile name is so I tried with:

    session.Logon()
to be prompted but that didn&#39;t work either (same error). Also tried both with Outlook open and closed and neither changed anything.


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