Sending High Importance email through Outlook using Python

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Using win32com.client package, I'm able to send an HTML email using outlook through Python. However, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to mark an email "high priority" or "high importance". Here is the code I'm using to successfully send out an email (with no priority marking): ``` RTFTEMPLATE = """ %s

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%s """ Format = { 'UNSPECIFIED' : 0, 'PLAIN' : 1, 'HTML' : 2, 'RTF' : 3} profile = "Outlook" #session = win32com.client.Dispatch("Mapi.Session") outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application") #session.Logon(profile) mainMsg = outlook.CreateItem(0…

Accepted Answer

You are creating your message through the COM `Outlook Object Model`. This model is fully documented, which can be a great help in situations like this.

For instance, the `MailItem` you are creating is documented here. As you can tell from that page, it has a property Importance which you can set to 2 (olImportanceHigh) to mark the message as "high importance".

In code

```
mainMsg.Importance = 2
```

Sending High Importance email through Outlook using Python

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