Help ! Outlook Automation with outlook visible

[dittytwo]

hi there
i have been tasked with automating a simple create email task using microsoft outlook.
the code below works create unfortunately it works only at a system level i.e. the user does not see it.
please help me make it visible

text="hello wolrd \nhello world this is hopefully a new paragrpah"
subject="this is the E-mail"
recipient="[e-mail]"
o = win32com.client.DispatchEx("Outlook.Application.11")
#o.Show() #<--here
Msg = o.CreateItem(0)
Msg.To = recipient
Msg.Subject = subject
Msg.Body = text
Msg.Save()
Msg.close
o.Quit()
 

I have tried
o.Visible throws a com error (AttributeError: Outlook.Application.Visible)
o.Display throws a com error (AttributeError: Outlook.Application.Display)
both the above set to true gain throws a com error
o.Show (AttributeError: Outlook.Application.Show)
all of the above with and without attributes
If i set o.Visible =1 (i.e. True)I get the com error
AttributeError: Property 'Outlook.Application.Visible' can not be set.

it must be possible as all other office products you can set to be visible.
obviusly I can

os.system("start outlook")

or run outlook.exe
but that is just nasty....
I might as well be using a Key pressing program and not bother with com
Please help
cheers
D2

[jlm699]

o.Visible throws a com error (AttributeError: Outlook.Application.Visible)
o.Display throws a com error (AttributeError: Outlook.Application.Display)
o.Show (AttributeError: Outlook.Application.Show)

These are telling you that the object doesn't have those attributes

If i set o.Visible =1 (i.e. True)I get the com error
AttributeError: Property 'Outlook.Application.Visible' can not be set.

This is telling you that this is a read-only variable, meaning there must be some method to set it to True. Perhaps there is a method that you could use like:
o.SetVisible( True )

Try scanning the API for Outlook COM objects