Microsoft/outlook msg and tempolate files

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What I’m trying to do:
I am looking to have an app that can create Microsft .msg email files and email template format files.

I have seen an old library called outlook-msg but not sure if this would work?

Is there a way of connecting directly with 365 or outlook web based service?

I am very new to programming.

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Welcome to the Forum!

I did not find it in Anvil’s List of (pre-loaded) Packages. But there are other ways you might use that package.

  1. Python v3.10 is available on Anvil’s servers. If you elect to use v3.10, it can probably install this package.
  2. Or, if you’re running Python on your own computer, with this package, then you might write a “service” (Uplink) program, that your App can call.

Those links (to Anvil’s documentation) should help you get acquainted with the ideas, and how to use them.

Sorry, someone else will have to answer that.

We’ve all been there! Glad you can take the time to learn.

Programming has some shallow, easy parts (especially with Python), and potholes (and rabbit-holes) as deep as any black hole. It has fun and frustrating parts. Python gets into all of these, because it is often used to “glue” many different kinds of things together, and to smooth over the deepest potholes. I’ve been at this for over 40 years, and I’m still running into new things, because there are a lot of inventive people out there, creating new things all the time! You can be one of them.

Welcome aboard!

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