I have a script which copies an attachment from outlook to a folder on my laptop. So far so good, if I only have one email with the defined Subject and Attachment everything works fine. Today I realized that there's a problem when I have a newer and an older email with the same subject and attachment name in my inbox - it looks like it randomly takes the old or the new one.
Question: Is there a way to tell the script to either always take the youngest mail or take the mail received today? I tried around with GetLast() and GetFirst(), what I found in stackoverlow, but wasn't sure where to add it exactly (my trys resulted in errors). Anyone having an idea?
from win32com.client import Dispatch
import datetime as date
outlook = Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")
inbox = outlook.GetDefaultFolder("6")
all_inbox = inbox.Items
val_date = date.date.today()
sub_today = 'Email Subject'
att_today = 'Attachment.zip'
for msg in all_inbox:
if msg.Subject == sub_today:
break
for att in msg.Attachments:
if att.FileName == att_today:
break
att.SaveAsFile(r'C:\path\to\my\folder\Attachment.zip')
EDIT (SOLUTION):
import win32com.client
Outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
olNs = Outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Inbox = olNs.GetDefaultFolder("6")
Filter = ("@SQL=" + chr(34) + "urn:schemas:httpmail:subject" +
chr(34) + " Like 'ATTACHMENTNAMEHERE' AND " +
chr(34) + "urn:schemas:httpmail:hasattachment" +
chr(34) + "=1")
Items = Inbox.Items.Restrict(Filter)
Items.Sort('[ReceivedTime]', False)
Item = Items.GetLast()
for attachment in Item.Attachments:
print(attachment.FileName)
if attachment.FileName == "ATTACHMENT.zip":
attachment.SaveAsFile(r"C:\path\to\my\folder\Attachment.zip")
GetLast and GetFirst are methods linked to inbox.Items
all_inbox = inbox.Items
all_inbox.Sort('[ReceivedTime]', True)
first = all_inbox.GetFirst()
last = all_inbox.GetLast()
Edit: As stated by @Dmitry Streblechenko you need to sort by ReceivedTime first the inbox.Items