Download All Messages & Attachments From Outlook Using Python

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In this video, we learn how to use Python to save all messages & attachments from Outlook. This will come in handy when you want to archive old email conversations and attachments. This is a very simple process and can be implemented in just a few minutes!

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*Do you have any questions or further automation ideas? Let me know in the comments! 👍*

[HandyGold]

Amazing tutorial, quick, easy to understands and just works :)

[ermalgashimramori]

Amazing, your tutorials are very productive. If I can make a suggestion, adding an ordering or dating in folder name makes a better navigational archive. Thank you!

[RijumanSen]

just what I was looking for. awesome work mate.

[juanjosealzate]

That’s just amazing, keep on working on this content 🙌🏻

[ammadkhan]

Very nice. To the point! Thanks for sharing.

[TheAmazingXizde]

Good video, another good ideia is using the pypff lib that allow to access and parse the pst file to use with python

[AiBeast]

really you did very well and save my time

[matthewwakefield]

Stack exchange failed me, but you came to the rescue. Great video and very concise!

Question though, how do you recommend dealing with multiple messages of the same name?

I know that in windows if you copy message.msg into a directory that already exists, you it automatically adds message.msg(1)

Is there some similar you can do for the directories?

[ZetaB]

Thank you very much for your video, it's super helpful. I wanted to ask you, how can you download the images that are embedded in the body of the message (not attached) but rather those that are like CID? I would appreciate it if you could help me. Regards!

[AvinashKumar-xjdp]

Hi Sven, Thanks for the video. I was looking for this.
Suggestions -
1. There can be a parameter where i will mention some rules and mail of that combination only to be downloaded like if i receive mail from particular mail id then only it should download or mail recevied on or before yesterday or by some date should be downloaded or mail with particular subject to be downloaded
2. For mail download you are giving the option of only text file is there any option to get the other format also
3. Also i receive some frequent reports from a mail where the data will be in body only and that to it will in table format any option to extract it

Last point - can you please give the same option in Excel VBA also.

[divakaran]

Hi Sven,
This video really help us when we are automating outlook application. Can you please make similar video to download entire email as .msg or .text or .pdf

[KhalilYasser]

Amazing tutorial as usual. Thank you very much.

[imadbouyakhlef]

Amazing, can you please advise how to download all the attachments from a specific Folder or subfolder, for example the inbox has OlDefaultFolders (6), unlike the subfolders

[thomasedison]

I must say "thanks a million times" for this wonderful video...
I learnt something tremendous from this video content....


I want to know if there's a python module or library that exports emails and sends them to a remote server?

[tomx]

Amazing video saved my life!!! Thank you so much! Just one more question, if I just want to download attachments from today, what code should I insert below "for message in messages:"? I assume message.date() ==today?

[raghushetty]

It's very useful thanks for sharing. My ask is could you please few more information in this video.

1. Adding code: downloading the attachment from the inbox (subfolder).
2. Adding code: downloading the current date attachment from subfolder.
3. Adding code: downloading latest attachment from the subflolder.
4. Adding code: downloading all the attachments without looking specific reports from subfolder
5. Adding code: downloading the attachment with same format ex: (csv, xlx, xlsx etc.)

[chansuesze]

Thanks for sharing! some of my email attachment could have another .msg files attached in it. May I know how can I extract these embedded attachment as well? Thank you!

[bengeorge]

Would it be a similar process to download the outlook calendar meetings and those details? The use case would be trying to figure out how much time is being spent on different meetings over time. :)

[rashidd]

Amazing video, can we extract table from body of outlook email?