How to continuously monitor a new mail in outlook and unread mails of a specific folder in python

Question

I want to check for a particular sender email and process it automatically wherever it arrives

However, there may be some situation where my outlook was restarted, m

Answer 1

Instead of monitoring outlook from python, try setting up outlook rules for that email and then launch python script via vba.

Here is the code to launch the python script from VBA.

Note: The code below was taken from here.

Sub UruchomBata(MyMail As MailItem)
  Dim Ret_Val
    Dim args As String

    args = "c:\new.py"
    Ret_Val = Shell("C:\python27\python.exe" & " " & args, vbNormalFocus) 
  End Sub

Below this line is the python script for those interested. It is currently set to control the DTR pins on the com1 serial port. The following will need to be save as a yourname.py file

import serial
from time import sleep


conn = serial.Serial('com1',
                     baudrate=9600,
                     bytesize=serial.EIGHTBITS,
                     parity=serial.PARITY_NONE,
                     stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_ONE,
                     timeout=1,
                     xonxoff=0,
                     rtscts=0
                     )
# Wake Modem

conn.setDTR(True)
sleep(3)
conn.setDTR(False)
sleep(1)


conn.close()


# Start talking

try:
    while True:
        conn.write('AT'+chr(13));
        print conn.readline() # readlines() will probably never return.
finally:
    conn.close()