How to save outlook email attachments with Python, on Virtal Desktop (VMWare)

Question

The below code works on my W10 laptop, but not on my w10 or w7 virtual desktop (VMWare).

It reads emails and save attachments from a specific sender to a shared network drive, and moves the email to a sub folder.

I guess I need to change the line:

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

any pointers much appreciated.

import win32com.client
import re
path='//shared_drive/StatementFiles/'
outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")
inbox = outlook.GetDefaultFolder(6) 
donebox = outlook.GetDefaultFolder(6).folders("Bank").folders("Statements")
messages = inbox.Items# get the first email
message = messages.GetLast()
sender_name = 'sender@email.com'
i = 1
while i < 100:
    message = messages.GetLast()
    try:
        current_sender = str(message.Sender).lower()
        current_subject = str(message.Subject)
        messagedate = message.senton
        if re.search(sender_name, current_sender) != None:
            print(current_subject) # verify the subject
            print(current_sender)  # verify the sender
            attachments = message.Attachments
            attachment = attachments.Item(1)
            attachment_name = str(attachment).lower()
            attachment.SaveASFile(path + attachment_name)
            att_path=path + attachment_name
            message.UnRead = False
            message.Move(donebox)
            current_sender = str(message.Sender).lower()
            current_subject = str(message.Subject)
            print(f'Email moved.')
        message = messages.GetNext()
    except:
        message = messages.GetNext()
    i += 1

I don't have Python installed on eiter of the virtual desktops, still waiting for it to be packaged, and I don't have the permissions to install, so on the virtual desktops I am running an exe file created with PyInstaller - again, this exe works correctly on my laptop. Running this exe via cmd prompts returns no message or error.

Answer 1

Oddly running this on a virtual desktop you need to reverse the order, so instead of going for GetLast, using GetFirst resolved this. Did hit another snag where Outlook brings up a message to allow an programme to emails, of either 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes. I couldn't find a way to deactivate this on our VMWare, so have decided to switch to VBA, which is now doing what I need. Frustrating, but at least it's a solution.