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5311 :: Using NIM for sending emails through Outlook app

• miclis (orginal) [2019-10-09T13:09:12+02:00] view original

  Hello,

  For a few weeks I have been learning Nim. Now, after I learned some basics, I'd like to use it to write actual apps. The one I want to write is for mail sending automation using Outlook. I did similar things using Python in the past and now I wonder how should I approach this in Nim. My Python code looked like this:

  import win32com.client
  from win32com.client import Dispatch, constants
  
  olMailItem = 0x0
  obj = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
  newMail = obj.CreateItem(olMailItem)
  newMail.SentOnBehalfOfName = 'mail@mail.com'
  newMail.Subject = "Test mail's subject"
  newMail.BodyFormat = 2
  newMail.HTMLBody = "Test mail's body"
  newMail.To = "user1@mail.com"
  newMail.CC = "user2@mail.com"
  newMail.display()
  Run

  I believe that in Nim the winim module might be used to achieve the same goal. However, the details on how to use it I found preety poor in details, so I'd like ot ask you how should I rewrite this python code so it'll work for Nim.

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• sky_khan (orginal) [2019-10-09T16:21:21+02:00] view original

  I havent used COM for a long time and I dont have outlook installed but examples here should help ?

  https://github.com/khchen/winim/tree/master/examples/com

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• miclis (orginal) [2019-10-15T13:33:37+02:00] view original

  Well, thanks. I managed to write this code and it works:

  import winim/com
  
  var obj = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
  var olMailItem = 0x0
  var newMail = obj.CreateItem(olMailItem)
  newMail.Subject = "test"
  newMail.Body = "Bodytest"
  newMail.display()
  Run

  I'll leave it here as somebody might need it in the future.

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