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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@demo.com"
attachment1 = r"C:\Temp\example.pdf"
newMail.Attachments.Add(Source=attachment1)
newMail.display()
newMail.Send()
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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!

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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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