Get attachments list of mail by mail.id from folder other than inbox exchangelib python

Question

I am having great time while working with this library.

My requirement is to get mail attachments from sub folder of inbox from mail id.

So far I got to know that from mail id(Message id) we can get that particular mail.

Code I am using for mail id -

Fetching mail from inbox and after moving that to different folder

account.inbox.all().order_by('-datetime_received').reverse() getting mail from inbox - email

email.move(account.inbox / "sub_folder_of_inbox")

email.id We have only this email id - this is some large string

Now mail is moved to sub_folder_of_inbox and we have id of mail too (from above code),

Requirement is to get attachments of that mail.

Code I followed-

sub_folder_mails=sub_folder_of_inbox.filter(message_id__in=['some large string mail id'])
for mail in sub_folder_mails:
      print(mail.subject)

And after getting mail I can get attachments

But this code is not giving required result , I am getting sub_folder_mails as QuerySet

Answer 1

To get an item by ID, do this:

item = a.root.get(id="AAMkADQy=")

Documented in https://ecederstrand.github.io/exchangelib/#searching

Attachments on an item can be accessed via item.attachment. See https://ecederstrand.github.io/exchangelib/#attachments