Setting a property using win32com

Question

I\'m trying to create a bunch of Outlook rules automatically. I\'m using Python 2.7, win32com, and Outlook 2007. To do this I must create a new Rule object and specify a fol

Answer 1

Try SetFolder()

I think from a cursory reading of your code try SetFolder(move, foo_folder)

win32com does some amazing magic but at times COM objects just defeat it. when the object cannot follow the pythonic convention, behind the scenes a setter and getter is created of form Set{name} Get{name}

see: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.windows/3231 NB - Mark Hammonds how to debug com is priceless - this stuff is just hidden in usegroups ...

Answer 2

With comtypes.client instead of win32com.client you can do:

import comtypes.client

o = comtypes.client.CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
rules = o.Session.DefaultStore.GetRules() 

rule = rules.Create("Python rule test", 0 ) # 0 is the value for the parameter olRuleReceive
condition = rule.Conditions.Subject # I guess MessageHeader works too
condition.Text = ('Foo', 'Bar')
condition.Enabled = True

root_folder = o.GetNamespace('MAPI').Folders.Item(1)
foo_folder = root_folder.Folders['Notifications'].Folders['Foo']

move = rule.Actions.MoveToFolder
move.__MoveOrCopyRuleAction__com__set_Enabled(True) # Need this line otherwise 
                                                    # the folder is not set in outlook
move.__MoveOrCopyRuleAction__com__set_Folder(foo_folder) # set the destination folder

rules.Save() # to save it in Outlook

I know it's not with win32com.client, but not with IronPython either!