Trying to automate a calendar notification by sending an outlook calendar invite via python. I would like to send the email from a separate email address. In python's email package, you can use sendmail() to specify the from_address and to_address; however, I cannot seem to figure out how to do this for an outlook invitation via win32com.client.
I had already tried using the icalendar package to automate this process, but the ics file that is attached to the email 'is unrecognized'.
Using win32com.client, I have been able to generate everything that I want in my invitation; however, I am still unable to figure out how to specify the sender.
import win32com.client as win32
from datetime import datetime
import pytz
tz = pytz.timezone("US/Pacific")
start_time = tz.localize(datetime(2018, 2, 01, 16))
subject = 'The Best Meeting Ever'
duration = 30
location = 'Home'
recipient = '[email protected]'
sender = '[email protected]'
outlook = win32.Dispatch('outlook.application')
# CreateItem: 1 -- Outlook Appointment Item
appt = outlook.CreateItem(1)
# set the parameters of the meeting
appt.Start = start_time
appt.Duration = duration
appt.Location = location
appt.Subject = subject
appt.MeetingStatus = 1 # this enables adding of recipients
appt.Recipients.Add(recipient)
appt.Organizer = sender
appt.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = 15
appt.ResponseRequested = True
appt.Save()
appt.Send()
when I send the email to my coworker, even though the sender is not my email address, he is receiving the invitation from my personal email and not '[email protected]'
Outlook/Exchange will not let you spoof the sender related properties - the meeting invitation will be sent as the current Outlook user.