In an Exchange environment (Office 365), I have to give myself SendAs
permission (or Full Access) for Outlook to allow this. The code to set the
field is:
msg = ol.CreateItemFromTemplate(templateFile, folder)
...
msg.SentOnBehalfOfName = "group...@company.com"
Todd
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote:
> Samantha Mait wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I am reaching out as I am trying to use the pywin32 package for python
> > 2.7 to automate sending an outlook calendar invite. The package is
> > awesome and is able to do everything I would like except for one
> > piece. I am trying to send the email from a separate email address. Is
> > there any way that I can do this?
> >
> >
> >
> > Ideally, I would like the email to be able to generate the script on
> > my computer, but have the sender be someone else like you can do in
> > python’s email package via sendmail(from_addresss, [to_address],
> > msg.as_string()).
> >
>
> Remember that Python is just a gateway into Outlook. You can't do
> anything that Outlook wouldn't ordinarily do, and Outlook doesn't allow
> you to override the sender address. You can set up multiple identities
> in Outlook, and then use Python to choose which identity to use when
> sending.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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