'How can I distinguish between attachment types in exchangelib?

I've just noticed that Microsoft OWA does not display some attachments. Some people use images in their footer (which are attachments). I'm not sure if the only difference between a "normal" attachment and this emedded attachment is that it is embedded in the email.

Is there another difference? How can I get only attachments which OWA* displays as attachements?

* and probably most other email clients; I think I've seen a similar behavior in Google Mail

emailexchangelib


Solution 1:[1]

looking for cid:image_name inside mail body fails for embedded images with src referring to a link rather than cid.

so the best solution would be to use attachments.is_inline property which is built in exchangelib.

    for attachment in msg.attachments:
        if msg.has_attachments == True:
            if isinstance(attachment, FileAttachment):
                if attachment.is_inline:
                    print("Embeded Image")
                else:
                    print("Normal Attachment")

reference: https://github.com/ecederstrand/exchangelib/issues/562

Sources

This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Overflow and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Source: Stack Overflow

Solution Source
Solution 1 ConMan77

Related Questions