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Rapidminer is a nice tool to process data. Unfortunately it does not have an access node to MS-Outlook (2007) Emails. (Unless somebody can diret me to the opposite.

Therefore my question, has someone a solution available by using a Python- or R-script.

There are several snippets on how to access the MAPI from Python, but I am not clear on how to pass them as documents to Rapidminer.

Links MAPI from Python:

Reading e-mails from Outlook with Python through MAPI

Modifying Microsoft Outlook contacts from Python

Kurt Ludikovsky
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  • If you are using Outlook in a corporate environment then you should know that MS Exchange comes with programmatic access to the message store disabled by default. And I have never come across an Exchange administrator who was prepared to change that default. – BoarGules Aug 03 '17 at 19:42
  • I am asking for outlook (2007) specifically. – Kurt Ludikovsky Aug 03 '17 at 20:14
  • And Outlook 2007 doesn't use Exchange? You can use MAPI to talk to very old versions of Outlook Express. – BoarGules Aug 03 '17 at 20:15
  • @BoarGules - "disabled by default"? What API is disabled by default? Use MAPI to talk to Outlook Express? You are mixing Extended MAPiI and Simple MAPI. They have nothing in common. – Dmitry Streblechenko Aug 04 '17 at 04:57
  • @BoarGules There is no Exchange anywhere! I am talking about a local (desktop) installation, where I have mails which I'd like to process. And MAPI is one interface I know to acess mails (and other elements) from Outlook. I have done this already with VBA as a macro. But here I am looking to get Emails to Rapidminer. – Kurt Ludikovsky Aug 04 '17 at 06:50
  • I began my comment with *If you are using Outlook in a corporate environment.* You're clearly not, so the comment doesn't apply. I believe you could have just ignored it. – BoarGules Aug 04 '17 at 08:41
  • Appologies if this was to direct. I wrote _twice MS-Outlook (2007)_ – Kurt Ludikovsky Aug 04 '17 at 11:53

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there is a nice Python RapidMiner Extension tool that you can download free from the RapidMiner marketplace. If you re-post in the RapidMiner user community forum, others may chime in.

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