Stuck with Microsoft Outlook for work e-mail? Want access to your raw e-mail messages from Outlook? Prefer to use your own e-mail client rather than the clumsy Outlook client? If so, weboutlook is for you.

weboutlook is a Python module that retrieves full, raw e-mails from Microsoft Outlook Web Access by screen scraping. It can do the following:

• Log into a Microsoft Outlook Web Access account with a given username and password.
• Retrieve all e-mail IDs from the first page of your Inbox.
• Retrieve the full, raw source of the e-mail with a given ID.
• Delete an e-mail with a given ID (technically, move it to the 'Deleted Items' folder).

Documentation / sample usage:

>>> from weboutlook import OutlookWebScraper

# Throws InvalidLogin exception for invalid username/password. >>> s = OutlookWebScraper('https://webmaildomain.com', 'username', 'invalid password') >>> s.login() Traceback (most recent call last):

...

>>> s = OutlookWebScraper('https://webmaildomain.com', 'username', 'correct password') >>> s.login()

# Display IDs of messages in the inbox. >>> s.inbox() ['/Inbox/Hey%20there.EML', '/Inbox/test-3.EML']

# Display IDs of messages in the 'sent items' folder. >>> s.get_folder('sent items') ['/Sent%20Items/test-2.EML']

# Display the raw source of a particular message. >>> print s.get_message('/Inbox/Hey%20there.EML') [...]

# Delete a message. >>> s.delete_message('/Inbox/Hey%20there.EML')

UPDATE, August 2010: I no longer am forced to use Microsoft Outlook, so I have no way of testing/improving this library. Greg Albrecht has branched the code here: http://github.com/ampledata/weboutlook/tree/master/weboutlook/