How to get highlighted (selected) mail from outlook using Python?

Question

I can not understand how to parse highlighted (selected) mail from outlook using Python?

I have this code, but it works with last mail.

import win32com.client

outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")

inbox = outlook.GetDefaultFolder(6)

messages = inbox.Items
message = messages.GetLast()
body_content = message.body
print (body_content)

Need to parse sender email address of highlighted mail?

Answer 1

Should be

import win32com.client

outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
messages = outlook.ActiveExplorer().Selection
message = messages(1)

try:
    if message.SenderEmailType == "EX":
        print("EX: ", message.Sender.GetExchangeUser().PrimarySmtpAddress)
    else:
        if message.SenderEmailType == "SMTP":
            print("SMTP: ", message.SenderEmailAddress)
except Exception as e:
    print(e)

Answer 2

Use Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1) to retrieve the currently selected message. Your code retrieves the last email in the Inbox - whatever "last" is, since you never explicitly sort the items collection. Most likely you will end up with the oldest email in the Inbox.